vt100 emulation in terminal doesn't display special characters correctly

[Liam Monahan]

I first ran across an issue when ssh'd into a machine running precise. When running a command like "cal" for example, the current date is not highlighted correctly.

It is as follows:

cal
      May 2012
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
       1 2 3 4 5
 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 $<2>24$<2> 25 26
27 28 29 30 31

When I'm running xterm on Ubuntu, it works correctly. When using xterm or vt100 on a RHEL machine, it works.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xvt (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 24 10:33:21 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xvt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.