Bug 68687

Summary:	Border characters show up funny
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2002-07-12 15:45:16 UTC

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Description of problem:
When running e.g. "make menuconfig" for the kernel on a virtual terminal, the
borders show up as accented uppercase letters. It worked fine here (Toshiba
Satellite 1800) under RH 7.3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1."make menuconfig" (or other such menu using program)on vt (not X)
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3.
	

Actual Results:  Borders show up as uppercase accented letters and other funny
characters

Expected Results:  Borders ;-)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-07-13 08:29:29 UTC

Not a kernel bug.  Sounds like the console font you're using does not
supply box drawing characters.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-15 00:34:49 UTC

It *is* a kernel bug. The dialog included in the kernel source does not handle UTF8.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-15 00:42:14 UTC

I should say, this is either a bug in the kernel source's dialog, or in the
ncurses it links to. It's not an initscripts issue, though.