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Bug 51070

Summary:	Box characters not displayed correctly under screen
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Derek Tattersall <dlt>
Component:	termcap	Assignee:	Petr Raszyk <praszyk>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	FEDORA CORE 4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2005-08-24 13:05:23 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Derek Tattersall 2001-08-07 00:52:27 UTC

Description of Problem:
Box drawing character are not displayed properly, and backspace doesn't
work with ash as my shell.

How Reproducible:
Happens every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run the yesno sample dialog script under screen in a console
2. observe incorrect lower border and left border box characters
3. 

Actual Results:
Incorrect characters displayed, back space fails to backspace

Expected Results:
good box characters, back space erases character to left

Additional Information:
These experiments were run in a console window, not an xterm.

Comment 1 Phil Copeland 2002-01-08 18:05:22 UTC

Hummmm
what you running it on? console or xterm or rvt or gnometerm?
I can see silliness on a console but that is really down to a duff termcap

see if you export TERM=vt100 it's fine (admittidly in black and white,..)

Now I'm unsure which file it's reading for the info /etc/termcap or
/usr/share/terminfo
One is from the termcap package and the otehr from ncurses. I'm going to make a
stab at termcap being the guilty party


Over to you Bero 8)

Comment 2 Petr Raszyk 2005-08-24 13:03:56 UTC

We assume, you mean with 'console' a replacement for a real 
system-console (Alt F1 or Ctrl Alt F1) == non graphic mode


We have tested your scenario on FEDORA CORE 4.
We have tried to launch (on 'console') (default settings):

/usr/share/doc/dialog*/samples/yesno

yesno  (yes-no-example-dialog) works, but some semigraphic 
        characters are not correctly displayed, keys are 
        correctly interpreted.

If we launch (on command prompt):


     setfont default8x16


Now, 'yesno' works fine, alle semigraphic characters are
correctly interpreted/displayed, keys are correctly interpreted.

NOTE: The 'box' (== semigraphic characters == ACS_HLINE, ACS_VLINE,...)
      are displayed only, if the current font 'supports' this 
      characters.