On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:18:34AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or
> just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use
> WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of
> this without rebooting? Thanks!
this is a variation on the theme: put control-O into your PROMPT
string to reset your character set after every command:
# bash
set PS1="^V^O whatever> "
# csh
setenv prompt="^V^O something> "
the ^V tells your command shell 'the next character is verbatim,
don't do whatever you normally would with it' and the ^O is a
standard 'reset the display character set' for ansi-like terminal
emulators.
there's probably a sane modular/universal way of doing this...
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