The letter "G" shows up in the start when I log in to my HTPC via SSH

Question

When I log in to my HTPC via SSH the letter "G" shows up in the beginning:
[ Neytiri ~ ]> ssh hund@<IP> -p <port>
Last login: Fri May 14 08:54:06 2010 from [...]
G[hund@Fjuppen ~]$
I dont have this problem when I log in to my server via SSH. I'm using zsh on my workstation and bash on my HTPC and server. If I use bash on my workstation and log in to my HTPC the problem doesnt occur.
It doesnt causes any problems, but it's disturbing that it's there and that I cant solve it myself.

Answer 1

I am not sure what the problem is, but I might know where you can start searching for it.
I have had a similar problem but it was when I tried to convert the official init scripts to C. I got a G at the beginning and It didn't seem like the utf8 support worked for the console (å,ä, and ö didn't work). The problem that I had was that I couldn't get /etc/profile.d/locale.sh to execute correctly from within the C program, it might be that zsh doesn't execute the locale.sh script correctly. I don't have a solution for the problem since I am still trying to solve it myself.
Anyway. the script is partly generated from line 372 in rc.sysint (pkg: initscripts 2010.05-3):
echo 'if [ "$CONSOLE" = "" -a "$TERM" = "linux" -a -t 1 ]; then printf "\033%%G"; fi' >>/etc/profile.d/locale.sh
The generated /etc/profile.d/locale.sh looks something like this (it may of course look different but that depends on the utf8 and locale settings in your rc.conf):
export LANG=sv_SE.utf8
if [ "$CONSOLE" = "" -a "$TERM" = "linux" -a -t 1 ]; then printf "\033%%G"; fi