Emacs shell mode showing unwanted char

Question

my emacs shell mode screen shot ...

Normal shell looks like this...

I have .emacs file empty..

emacs version 24.5.1

I already tried this Why does shell mode display some rubbish code?

[i copy the code provided in solution of above question in my .emacs file but its not working for me...]

Do echo $TERM and post the results. – aartist Sep 25 '17 at 17:23 — aartist, Sep 25 '17 at 17:23
xterm-256color <------ this is output of "echo $TERM" – Abhinesh Sep 26 '17 at 16:09 — Abhinesh, Sep 26 '17 at 16:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '17 at 12:37

It looks like it is the unicode not the escape codes that aren't displaying. You can change the process-coding-system. From your shell buffer, enter C-x RET p and select utf-8-unix for process read and write.

If that results in the proper display, you may want to add something like the following to your init file

(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)

See this article for further details.

Emacs shell mode showing unwanted char

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