Bug 68687 - Border characters show up funny
Summary: Border characters show up funny
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-12 15:45 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-16 04:49:14 UTC
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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)
2.
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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.
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