[RP] Re: Re: ncurses issues

[Nikolai :: lone-star :: Weibull]

On Mon, Jul 14 2003, John Meacham wrote something resembling:
> Also be sure to start screen with the '-U' option if you are in a
> unicode locale and have a unicode enabled terminal. (mostly the case
> nowadays). to find out if that is the case, check if $LANG ends with
> UTF-8. not all versions of screen can autodetect this and it can cause
> terminal corruption when using non ascii drawing characters.
>         John
>
hm...are there any good UTF-8 fonts that could do the line-drawing?
what would be a good us-ascii like UTF-8 locale?  i'm terrible at this
kind of stuff, would love to get some information about this.

cheers,
        nikolai

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