[ale] Gibberish on the terminal

[George Nies]

Blake Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Allright, I was running a command, and it returned a lot of info but it was all in gibberish - it looked like the wrong character set, but just lowercase letters were affected.  Capitals were clearly readable, but everything else was boxes and lines and symbols.  I know there's a way to get this back to normal, but what is it?  And what causes this?

It's in a faq somewhere...  You type "echo ^V^C"  that's CRTL-V CRTL-C
most modern distributions include a shell script called "reset" to do
this for you.  
As to why it happens...  it has to do with what the terminal thinks are
escape sequences in the binary file it's reading.

	-George