#14733: pretty unicode banner
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       Reporter:  chapoton           |         Owner:  tbd         
           Type:  enhancement        |        Status:  needs_info  
       Priority:  minor              |     Milestone:  sage-5.11   
      Component:  user interface     |    Resolution:              
       Keywords:  banner, unicode    |   Work issues:              
Report Upstream:  N/A                |     Reviewers:  Volker Braun
        Authors:  Frédéric Chapoton  |     Merged in:              
   Dependencies:  #14559             |      Stopgaps:              
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Changes (by tmonteil):

  * status:  positive_review => needs_info


Comment:

 I tried with more terminal emulators (still using Debian wheezy), and

 - `kterm` does not show the boxes (not a serious problem)
 - `Eterm` leads to a very bad output
 - `mrxvt-mini` and `mrxvt` lead to:

 {{{
 $ sage
 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | Sage Version 5.10.rc0, Release Date: 2013-05-29                    |
 | Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.        |
 | Type "help()" for help.                                            |
 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 **********************************************************************
 *                                                                    *
 * Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.     *
 *                                                                    *
 **********************************************************************
 sage: sage.misc.banner.banner()
 
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────â”
 
 │ Sage Version 5.10.rc0, Release Date: 2013-05-29                    │
 │ Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.        │
 │ Type "help()" for help.                                            │
 
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” 
â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” 
┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┓
 ┃                                                                    ┃
 ┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.     ┃
 ┃                                                                    ┃
 â”—â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” 
â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” 
â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â”›
 sage:
 }}}

 Acces via various ssh connection (especially Putty on windows logging to
 various server settings should be tested as well).

 While i find this banner very pretty, i do not have any idea how to fix
 this encoding issue. Any idea ?

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