I typically use xemacs in shell mode. but in a new place, with Ubuntu and bash, the shell can't display the output of "tree" correctly:

instead of printing out:

|--Dir0
|--Dir1
|--Dir2

it prints out:
a\224\224a\224\200 Dir1
a\224\224a\224\200 Dir2 etc.

the command "tree" displays correctly in a Terminal. but when I copy the output from the Terminal to IE9, it becomes this:
\u2514\u2500\u2500 Dir0
\u251c\u2500\u2500 Dir1
\u251c\u2500\u2500 Dir2

BTW, at first xemacs couldn't disply "ls" output correctly either, but it is fixed by adding this to init.el.
(autoload 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on "ansi-color" nil t)
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)


Any insight on how to fix the output from "tree" in xemacs?

Thanks.

Hi, welcome to LQ!

try
tree -nS



Cheers,
Tink

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Thank you very much, Tinkster.

With "tree -S", the output is much clearer and readable. (the color is turned off already in my case.)

but the ASCII indentation lines are still shown as "A umlaut", "A tilde" or other variations.

I can move on now. but it would be great if I can find a way to make xemacs display command output normally.


In case it matters, the following is the xemacs coding system in our environment:

Coding system for saving this buffer:
ISO8 -- iso-2022-8
Default coding system (for new files):
ISO8 -- iso-2022-8
Coding system for keyboard input:
nil
Coding system for terminal output:
nil
Coding systems for process I/O:
encoding input to the process: Binary -- binary
decoding output from the process: Raw -- raw-text-unix

Priority order for recognizing coding systems when reading files:
1. iso-2022-7
2. raw-text
3. ctext
4. iso-2022-lock

Other coding systems cannot be distinguished automatically
from these, and therefore cannot be recognized automatically
with the present coding system priorities.

Particular coding systems specified for certain file names:

OPERATION TARGET PATTERN CODING SYSTEM(s)
--------- -------------- ----------------
File I/O "\\.\\(?:bz2\\|elc\\|g\\(if\\|z\\)\\|jp\\(eg\\|g\\)\\|png\\|t\\(ar\\|gz\\|iff\\)\\|[Zo]\\)\\'"
binary
"TUTORIAL\\.\\(?:hr\\|pl\\|ro\\)\\'"
iso-8859-2
Process I/O nothing specified
Network I/O nothing specified

Sorry mate, the -nS was just a stab in the dark. I don't have xemacs installed,
and wouldn't know where else to start prodding ... is there difference between
xemacs and the enconding you use in your shell?

What does 'locale' tell you?

Here is the "locale" output:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Thanks.