Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Leidinger writes:
> : Works here without problems (TERM = xterm & xterm-color).
> :
> : Wild guess: Does your shell support 8bit-chars?
>
> No. The line drawing characters aren't 8 bit characters on VT100
> derived terminals. My guess is that you don't have a proper line
> drawing font installed on your system for the font you are using for
> the xterm. Been too long since I read the man page to know what you
> need to tweak, but I'm sure that it is there.
>
You are right! I was using the "lucidatypewriter" font (I really _like_
that font). I switched the xterm to use "fixed" font and the line
drawing characters now appear.
Hummm... is there any way to force ncurses to use the old '-', '|' and
'+' characters for drawing lines and boxes (perhaps the "ac" termcap
capabilility)? I prefer lucidatypewriter over fixed font.
Thank you very much,
-- JMA
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