I log in from inside an xterm/eterm on RH 7.3 as root on a RH 9 server, and netconfig looks completely broken. It's unusable
Created attachment 91239 [details] screenshot of curses/slang/whatever brokenness note that this doesn't get fixed if I set TERM to vt100 or xterm or whatever
hp gave me the reason for this problem, I suppose you can close the bug, but please look at my answer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You have to match the encoding of mc to the encoding of > your terminal. The encoding of mc comes from the locale; for > example, LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gives UTF-8 encoding, > LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 gives Latin-1. 7.3 terminal will be expecting > Latin-1 by default. RHL 9 gnome-terminal has a menu Terminal->Character Coding > which can be used to change encoding to match remote systems. Indeed, thanks for pointing that out, I missed that change (and boy, did I look for it. Can this be added someone, like in the release notes next time) I know why you are making this change, but honestly knowing that it breaks remote connections in a non obvious way, I question the wiseness of this new default. It also breaks any other terminal by default (like xterm/Eterm/whatever), doesn't it? > This can't be done automatically because the ssh and telnet protocols do > not include encoding negotiation. A screwup in those protocols, so That's true > the only solution is to manually set your encodings properly. Other possible fixes would have been: 1) auto-set lang to en_US.ISO-8859-1 for remote connections 2) have gnome-terminal set a new TERM type (which gets passed by telnet/ssh/rlogin) and set lang to en_US.UTF-8 only if this new TERM type is detected (like xterm-utf8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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