Phil Thanks for the pointers On Sunday, August 24, 2014, Phil Pennock <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-08-24 at 13:08 -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:04 PM, john boris <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > I have been doing it in putty but instead I should have been looking in > > > irssi > > > > Yes; I would have expected this to be clear. Putty just sees text, it has > > no idea what that text means. If irssi is outputting the timestamp in the > > wrong color, it's irssi that needs to change, because only irssi knows > what > > it's doing with its timestamp. > > The biggest problem is the lack of consistency around colour management > and whether systems should assume white-on-black or black-on-white, how > this is conveyed to programs, and which libraries use what environment > variables to convey hints. > > It's all a rather pathetic mess. Moreso than the mess around how the > word "colour" is spelt. ;-) > > I suggest experimenting to see if exporting the `COLORFGBG` variable > helps; foreground and background colours, separated by a semi-colon (so > be careful to quote that past the shell). > > It has been several years since I last used PuTTY, but this fragment is > in my shell profile settings (zsh, and I've lightly changed it so it > should work in bash too): > > case .${TERM}. in > .putty.) > export LC_CTYPE=$box_prefctype > [[ $OSTYPE == linux-gnu ]] && stty iutf8 > export TERM="$TERM" COLORTERM="$TERM" COLORFGBG='white;black' > # PuTTY in UTF-8 mode does not support using ISO-2022 ACS shifting, > # aka "line-drawing" with ^Nqqq^O. Either run PuTTY non-UTF-8 or > tell > # curses to not use ACS. Note that PuTTY's behaviour follows some > # recommendations about behaviour of UTF-8 terminal applications, > since > # not supporting shift-modes leads to simplicity and fewer munged > # terminals. Really, ncurses should not be using shifting when in > # UTF-8 charmap locale. > export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1 > ;; > esac > > -Phil > -- John J. Boris, Sr. Head Freshmen Football Coach Camden Catholic High School
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