Looking at the code in question (which turns out to come from the kernel
rather than consolation itself), I see another problem: it is hard-coded for
latin-1 (with somehow punctuation being included), which is wrong in a vast
majority of cases: unconfigured console, including Debian's, uses a custom
charset that mixes CP437 with ISO-8859-1, causing consolation to consider
line-drawing characters as word chars which is definitely wrong --
especially that frames very often live next to words an user wants to copy.
When the console is configured, it almost always does a charset other than
ISO-8859-1 (as those who want that are usually satisfied with the default),
and charsets I've looked at do provide line-drawing as well.
Thus, I see that the kernel assumes the mouse daemon will configure this
with TIOCL_SELLOADLUT -- gpm does so. This means here's a workaround for
this problem: install gpm, remove it, re-install consolation, and until
reboot you're set :p
For the record, the unconfigured default is:
static u32 inwordLut[8]={
0x00000000, /* control chars */
0x03FF0000, /* digits */
0x87FFFFFE, /* uppercase and '_' */
0x07FFFFFE, /* lowercase */
0x00000000,
0x00000000,
0xFF7FFFFF, /* latin-1 accented letters, not multiplication sign */
0xFF7FFFFF /* latin-1 accented letters, not division sign */
};
I guess it should be changed to match the default charset, but that's a
matter for kernel guys not you. I can patch that but with the only users
of this code being gpm (which overrides the default) and now consolation,
I'd prefer hearing your opinion first.
Meow!
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