When aterm displays man pages or other programs that
place color codes before/after words, then aterm won't
change colors. It displays odd square shaped characters
before/after the words where color is supposed to
change (see screenshot attached).
Notes: 1) xterm seems to display man pages and other
progs properly 2) dircolors look perfectly normal with
aterm 3) transparent window or not i still have the problem
Screenshot of 2 aterms showing man pages
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Are you sure your descrition is correct?
This looks more as if you were using a utf-8 locale, but
aterm doesn't support utf-8 (the only rxvt clone supporting
utf-8 so far is rxvt-unicode).
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The utf-8 thing is possible. So how do I fix this then?
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Indeed, the problem was utf-8 based, thanks!