Nicholas Marriott wrote: > OK seems like it is always using ACS which is correct. > > I just remembered jmc asked me about this before and it turned out that > ACS doesn't work with the DRM console - I don't think the font have the > right symbol for either ACS or UTF-8 line drawing, but there may be > other problems in there as well. > > If you are using DRM you can set TERM to pccon0 which is a variant with > ASCII line drawing and ncurses will use ASCII for line drawing.
ah, yes, env TERM=pccon0 causes correct fallback to --|| style lines.