GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 538181
cat /dev/urandom -> window title unreadable
Last modified: 2008-06-13 18:57:15 UTC
Please describe the problem: cat /dev/urandom for example prints a 'lot' of characters. it seems, that some of them mix up the character encoding. even when you stop the cat process the prompt looks something like this "␍⎺␍⎺␍⎺├@␌▒├␊⎼⎻␋┌┌▒⎼:·/⎽├┤␍␋┤└/␊⎻⎼⎺±/⎽├┤°°$ " instead of "dododoth@caterpillar:~/studium/eprog/stuff$". Steps to reproduce: 1. open gnome-terminal 2. execute "cat /dev/urandom" 3. stop "cat /dev/urandom" after several seconds Actual results: it seems that the character encoding gets mixed up Expected results: that after stopping the process e.g. "ctrl-c" that the character encoding is normal Does this happen every time? yes Other information: i don't think this bug appears on 64-bit systems
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127870 ***