Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:54:36 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Dangling Pointer <danglingpointer@outlook.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: git diff encoding issue when running via Hyper-V Message-ID: <20150930175436.c1117526.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BAY169-W427D636EB4B23950789C1BA74D0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY169-W424C7A9E96B8530A5BCAF0A74D0@phx.gbl> <20150930165744.3437d751.freebsd@edvax.de> <BAY169-W427D636EB4B23950789C1BA74D0@phx.gbl>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:27:23 +0000, Dangling Pointer wrote: > Thanks Polytropon for your reply. > I am seeing this issue with these image as are (by only installing `git` and no other alterations made to the OS whatsoever): > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.2-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64.vhd.xz.ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64.vhd.xz. > Should those be considered as standard installation? Yes. As far as I know, they don't have any customization related to terminal emulation and paging. As it has been suggested by Michael B. Eichorn, you can try setting a different than the standard (US) character set and encoding, even though this _should_ not have anything to do with the problem you're seeing. For example, I could verify the correct working of the color codes in a normal xterm and on the text mode console with LC_ALL set to the (german) setting en_US.ISO8859-1. You could try en_US.UTF-8 as well. However, make sure - just to be _really_ sure - that your Git output hasn't been mangled and there are _real_ ESC characters in it, by dumping some output to a temporary file and checking it with the "hexdump -C <filename>" command as shown in my previous message. Verify that you aren't trying to solve a problem which does not exist. ;-) Regarding terminal capabilities (and color support in this context) you can simply try this: % echo "This is ^[[31mred^[[m text." When you encounter the sequence ^[, press Ctrl+V, then Escape. This will escape the escape character, and ^[ will be shown. You should see the word "red" in red color. If not - well, _then_ you're beginning to see an existing problem. :-) > Maybe it is related to keyboard layout as when I press Del key in > text editor or command line, I get tilde (~) sign instead of getting > character at cursor deleted (so I use Backspace for deletion which > works perfectly fine)? No, not related, but a separate problem. It's easy to resolve. Depending on your shell, and let's assume the C shell is still your default interactive shell: Go to the /etc/csh.cshrc file (global C shell configuration) and add after the "if ( $?tcsh ) then" block: bindkey ^? delete-char # for console bindkey ^[[3~ delete-char # for xterm Now the DEL key will work as expected. You can verify the correct setting with the "stty -a" command. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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