Console distortion when use cat command after use gpg command

Bug #315259 reported by zir3

This bug report was converted into a question: question #61866: Console distortion when use cat command after use gpg command.

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Bug Description

I was testing a few commands of gnupg and i applicate a gpg --output nada.txt --detach-sig nada, the i want read the file nada generated with the cat command and the console distort convert illegible. I test this for 2 or 3 times(in differents console type) more with the same result

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Ted (tedks) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

Additionally, this is the defined behaviour for writing binary information to a terminal -- to fix it, just type "reset" and hit enter.

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