From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-04-29T08:36:02+09:00
Subject: Re: irb weirdness

This is on Mac OS localhost.
I think you may have been onto something by blaming the Terminal
program itself, as it seems to work in xterm.
I mention windows as I believe I've run into this problem [and all the
time] running a console in windows, though I don't have one handy to
test my hypothesis.
>  Might be related to terminal type propagation via SSH (I am assuming you
> tried remotely before).  You can try to explicitly set TERM (e.g. "export
> TERM=xterm" in a bash).
Unfortunately even this is not enough to help out OS X's terminal :)