RE: Debian and Unicode line drawing
Hello,
Thanks for your replay. Unfortunately it doesn't work :(
Could you check these screenshots?
http://screencloud.net/v/jL6o
http://screencloud.net/v/kp3E
http://screencloud.net/v/1MR1
With and without the option you mentioned mc and other ncurses programs works fine but the dpkg-reconfigure is still just outputing pppppppp and qqqqqqqq rows.
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Best regards,
Aleksander Kurczyk
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> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:39:09 +0100
> From: ronleach@tesco.net
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing
>
> On 01/04/2014 12:14, Aleksander Kurczyk wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using PuTTY, [...]
>>
>> I noticed that every frame in default Debian configuration in PuTTY
>> is displayed as the rows of ppppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqq instead of
>> those frame ASCII characters. PuTTY and every of my Debian
>> installation is set to use Unicode UTF-8 encoded characters so
>> ncurses etc. should use those characters to display frames instead
>> of this vt100 escape code and ppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqq after it. PuTTY
>> and KiTTY is expecting this and not those vt100 compatible
>> characters. PuTTY/KiTTY can use those vt100 charasters without any
>> problems but not in the Unicode mode. In this mode it expects
>> normal UTF-8 characters.
>
> I use PuTTY to access a variety of *nix systems, and things seem to
> differ a lot. I use mc, and the 'line drawing' around its panes
> depends on using these settings, I've found:
>
> PuTTY, Window, Translation:
> Character set: UTF8
> Handle line drawing: Use font in ANSI and OEM modes
>
> and in mc, on Debian Wheezy in this example:
> Display bits, Input display, code page: UTF8
>
> gives a 'perfect' mc appearance in the PuTTY window.
>
>>
>> I can make ncurses applications use Unicode characters with the
>> variable "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" set in my .bashrc. But not
>> all applications uses ncurses. For example dpkg-reconfigure still
>> uses those vt100 escape code and ppppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqqqq
>> characters. How can i make it Unicode compatible?
>
> Oh, I didn't know there were these options. How do you know whether
> an application is an ncurses application? Is mc such an application?
> Maybe mc is ok because its codepage can be altered anyway, and maybe
> your observation suggests that dpkg-reconfigure cannot be changed; I
> see the problem, now.
>
> Have you tried altering the ANSI/OEM setting in PuTTY, anyway?
>
> regards, Ron
>
>
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