Weird character zsh in emacs terminal

Question

When using the terminal in emacs (M-x term) under MacOS for some reason it always posts the characters 4m before every line in zsh and always prints 2 lines containing the u

Answer 1

This installed eterm-color.ti for me on OSX Mavericks 10.9.5:

1. Upload eterm-color.ti to /tmp on the remote OSX server.

2. Run the command sudo tic -o /usr/share/terminfo /tmp/eterm-color.ti on the server.

In my case, this put a file eterm-color in the directory /usr/share/terminfo/65/