Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 51070
Box characters not displayed correctly under screen
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:32 EDT
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.
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)
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.