On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:25:45AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:59:45AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > Right; it's a Debian patch. Also, it appears to break line drawing
> > > characters (completely) in the ncurses interface and doesn't do them
> > > correctly UTF-8 natively, either. (I'm trying to get this fixed, but
> > > don't hold your breath.)
> >
> > I did make a note of that (in early November), but line-drawing wasn't as
> > high-priority as other things. (The current state of affairs is that it
> > uses the terminfo to send vt100 controls, which works with XFree86 xterm).
>
> Er, xterm shouldn't honor ACS controls in UTF-8 mode. One of the reasons I
> like UTF-8 as a terminal encoding is that they don't explode if I accidentally
> dump random binary data to it, which I tend to do at least once a day. :)
hm (doesn't explode).
try this (if you do)
reset; tput enacs
I do get burned using Tera Term with Solaris curses (when I forget and let
it try to display line-drawing characters, it trashes the display, though
ncurses does just fine). But we weren't talking about that, since I'm
assuming your tools work just fine...
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