Weird issue with escape characters in Ubuntu Server

[mgomez]

Hello. I recently installed ubuntu server and after installing a few things I looked through the manpages of a few commands and noticed they got jumbled up with what looks like escape sequences. They're showing up with things like "1m" and "0m". I think it bears mentioning that I am using the Fish shell but it does the same thing with Bash.

Does anyone have a clue what's going on? I attached an image to better illustrate what I mean.

 

[osprey]

Hello. I recently installed ubuntu server and after installing a few things I looked through the manpages of a few commands and noticed they got jumbled up with what looks like escape sequences. They're showing up with things like "1m" and "0m". I think it bears mentioning that I am using the Fish shell but it does the same thing with Bash.

Does anyone have a clue what's going on? attached an image to better illustrate what I mean.

Welcome.

A likely disturbance, in the first instance, could be from the terminal failing to interpret the escape sequences, or the pager not handling them.

To see which terminal is being used:

echo $TERM

To see which pager is default:

ls -al /etc/alternatives/pager

One could try a different terminal and/or a different pager.

 

[mgomez]

Welcome.

A likely disturbance, in the first instance, could be from the terminal failing to interpret the escape sequences, or the pager not handling them.

To see which terminal is being used:

echo $TERM

To see which pager is default:

ls -al /etc/alternatives/pager

One could try a different terminal and/or a different pager.

Hey! Thanks for getting back to me.

Output of echo $TERM is:

xterm-256color

And output of ls -al /etc/alternatives/pager is:

 root 20 Apr 18:22  /etc/alternatives/pager -> /usr/bin/less

I tried other terminals but still encounter the same issue.