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Re: screen messes up ncurses



On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:07:53PM -0400, Seneca wrote:
| On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:38:33PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
| > I am running screen 3.9.5-9 on a sid box. The problem is this: When I
| > use curses based applications like mc or mutt, all line drawing
| > characters are displayed as regular letters. Looks like the 8th bit is
| > stripped off the char or something. Does anybody know what to do about
| > that?
| 
| Regular letters are the regular charset version of the altcharset (where
| the line drawing characters are kept). I saw your update about it only
| happening in powershell, multi-gnome-terminal, and gnome-terminal. I'm
| not familiar with gnome... what does "echo $TERM" say? I'll see if I can
| dig up something I wrote to check for altcharset compatibility a while
| ago. It could be that it just isn't compatible.

gnome-terminal doesn't draw the line-drawing characters correctly.
It's why I (sometimes) have 'ascii_chars' set in mutt.

Anyways, $TERM is : xterm

-D

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