Re: Problem with some pseudographic symbols

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Alexander Kresin wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Recently I have installed new OS version to my Linux
> box ( ASPLinux - Russian distro compatible with
> Fedora, ncurses 5.4.5 ) and get problems with drawing
> some pseudographic chars in ncurses based program.
> Following is a short sample:

Start here:

  #include <locale.h>

> #include <ncurses.h>
> int main( void )
> {

  setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

> initscr();
> move(10,10);
> addch(144); addch(145); addch(146); addch(129);
> getch();
> endwin();
> return 0;
> }
>
> Instead of those symbols I get ~P~Q~R~A.
> Without ncurses those sybmbols are drawn well:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main( void )
> {
> printf( "\n%c%c%c",145,146,129 );
> return 0;
> }
>
> I use KOI8-R symbol table.
> In my old system ( ncurses 5.3.9 ) all was Ok.

There was no such release as 5.3.9.
Perhaps you're referring to some package such as "5.3-9".

Generally rpm packagers add a "-number" to the release version, but
there is no standard for what that number means: it differs for each
packager.

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