Hi all I don't think this is strictly a Python problem, but as it manifests itself in one of my Python programs, I am hoping that somebody in this group can help me.
The following is a message I sent to co.os.linux.setup - "My question concerns line graphics on a text-based console. �My actual problem relates to a [Python] program I have written using ncurses, b�ut you can easily test it by running a program like minicom. If you call up the minicom menu, it should be surrounded by �a nice box made up of horizontal and vertical lines, corners, etc. It used to work up until Redhat 7. Since upgrading to Redhat 9, and now Fedo�ra, it (and my program) has stopped working." I received the following reply from Thomas Dickey - "That's because Redhat uses UTF-8 locales, and the Linux cons�ole ignores vt100 line-drawing when it is set for UTF-8. (screen also d�oes this). ncurses checks for $TERM containing "linux" or "screen" (sin�ce there's no better clues for the breakage) when the encoding is UTF-8�, and doesn't try to use those escapes (so you would get +'s and -'s). co�mpiling/linking with libncursesw would get the lines back for a properly-wri�tten program." I don't really understand the last sentence. Does anyone know if it is possible to do this (or anything else) or am I stuck. TIA for any advice. Frank Millman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
