Re: ncurses bug -display error

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Stephan Wienczny wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I think I found a bug in ncurses. Have a look at the screenshot attached. 
> I'using ncurses-5.4-r6 on linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3. The error only occourres on 
> textmode terminals.

hmm - judging by the picture, that seems to be a non-X console.

If your locale is UTF-8, generally the system initializes the Linux console
into its UTF-8 mode.  In that mode, it doesn't recognize vt100-style
line-drawing.  ncurses 5.4 checks the $TERM for "linux" and will work around
this problem.  If your $TERM is something that doesn't contain "linux" in the
Linux console in that situation, you'd get something like that on the screen.

> I recompiled mc without ncurses and it looked fine.  I don't think that it is
> a mc bug because I have serveral other applicatations that show this error...

I don't see the distribution in the note above - Redhat's copy of slang
has been patched to do something for UTF-8 - perhaps you're seeing that.

> What Info do you need?
> 
> Stephan

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