Bug 51070 - Box characters not displayed correctly under screen
Summary: Box characters not displayed correctly under screen
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: termcap
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Raszyk
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-07 00:52 UTC by Derek Tattersall
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:35 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: FEDORA CORE 4
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-08-24 13:05:23 UTC
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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.




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