Re: lynx-dev Display problem with Cygwin port: lynx or ncurses problem?

[Doug Kaufman]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> 
> > I noted that the box drawing characters on the cygwin port don't seem
> > to be correct, at least in popup boxes on the option page. Rather
> ... 
> otoh, if I'm misinterpreting the comment about "&Auml" - that you're
> describing an 8-bit character rather than a 7-bit approximation, the
> fix for that is to tell cygwin to use the OEM character set.  In my
> /etc/profile, I have
>       export CYGWIN=codepage:oem

Yes, I was describing the 8-bit character. Setting "CYGWIN=codepage:oem"
fixed the problem for me. This seems to work when the value is put into
the environment when running the binary under command.com also.

Thanks.
                   Doug

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