G'day dbae,

I have the same problem using Mac OS X 10.7.3 and Perl 5.14.2 with the Mac application Terminal. I've used a number of different OSes over the years and haven't seen this issue previously: this suggests a Mac OS X problem; although, it could be related to just the perldoc implementation on Mac OS X.

I use ANSI escape codes in $PS1 and $PS2 and these seem to work perfectly. From my .bash_profile: 

PS1='\[\033[0;36m\]\u@\h: \w\n\$ \[\033[0m\]'
PS2='\[\033[0;36m\]> \[\033[0m\]'

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While fixing this is on my TODO list, it has a fairly low priority as I tend to use http://perldoc.perl.org in preference to the commandline perldoc. Looking for a quick fix some months ago, I investigated $TERM values (suggested above) as well as $LANG and $LC_* (locale) values. I didn't find a solution in whatever timeframe I allotted but these are areas I would be researching further in the future: perhaps that's of some use to you.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: strange output characters from perldoc by kcott
in thread strange output characters from perldoc by dbae

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