So this has been bugging me for a few years now and I can always "fix" the problem, but I don't know if that's actually the correct way. So the issue is terminal emulation. I use Secure CRT (vandyke.com) to connect to any and all of my servers through SSH. Whether the terminal is set to 'linux' or 'xterm' makes no difference, I always get this output when I run a 'tree' command (and others that have some sort of graphical output):
[13] 05:04:53 <root@brasco:~> tree rpmbuild/ rpmbuild/ â”── BUILD │  └── ncftp-3.2.5 │  â”── autoconf_local │  │  â”── acconfig.h │  │  â”── aclocal.m4 │  │  └── aclocal.m4.ncursesw │  â”── bin │  │  â”── ncftp │  │  â”── ncftpbatch │  │  â”── ncftpbookmarks │  │  â”── ncftpget │  │  â”── ncftpls │  │  â”── ncftpput │  │  └── ncftpspooler -> ncftpbatc
Now, the way I fix that is by changing the LANG setting. By default it's set to 'en_US.UTF-8' right after a fresh install. If I change that to simply 'en_US', then I get the output I'm expecting:
[16] 05:06:14 <root@brasco:~> tree rpmbuild/ rpmbuild/ |-- BUILD | `-- ncftp-3.2.5 | |-- autoconf_local | | |-- acconfig.h | | |-- aclocal.m4 | | `-- aclocal.m4.ncursesw | |-- bin | | |-- ncftp | | |-- ncftpbatch | | |-- ncftpbookmarks | | |-- ncftpget | | |-- ncftpls | | |-- ncftpput | | `-- ncftpspooler -> ncftpbatch ...
So my question is: why is that? Why would the default setting not work? Is it actually something that I need to be doing on the server (like changing the LANG setting), or is it with SecureCRT? And if so, can anyone give me any suggestions of what I need to be looking for and change?
Like I said, it's been a couple of years and it's never a big deal since I know what to do to sort of fix the problem.
Thanks.