Re: garbled output in a warning

[email protected] wrote:

>perl version 5.8.0, I am debugging a script that uses a module, and
>that module elicits a warning like "you only used that filehandle once,
>you dolt in <filename> line <whatever>" (I paraphrase, since I can't
>post from work, and that's where the problem is).
>
>The problem is the filenames is some weird characters, and they change
>when some random environment variables that have nothing to do with
>perl (I believe) change. Sometimes it "breaks" the terminal, meaning
>all the subsequent output to the screen is these weird characters
>(reminding me maybe of when you try to view a binary file in a text
>editor) and I end up having to close the session and fire up a new
>terminal window.
>
What are those environment variables?  What OS are you working on?

~Jeff