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Look at this incredible screenshot. I’m editing a commit message in Nano, within iTerm (an OS X terminal). I had just pulled changes from the master branch at git@github.com:Compass/compass.git

crazy looking terminal

Please note how all the capital letters display fine, but no lowercase letters do!

This persisted even after I closed Nano. I had to close the terminal tab.

My question is… how is that possible? What "feature" of which software does this?

Alan H.
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  • I've seen that recently in `xterm`. I was able to get back to normal characters by echoing some VT100/xterm control sequence. I don't remember the exact details. – Keith Thompson Aug 05 '14 at 21:25

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These are VT100 line drawing characters.

You can reproduce it with echo -e '\033(0' and exit the mode with echo -e '\033(B'.

Alternatively, reset will reset the terminal and go back to normal.

that other guy
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