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Re: line drawing characters in vt100 xterm
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:19:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: line drawing characters in vt100 xterm
- References: <f3i1jr$rml$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 29 May 2007, J. David Boyd wrote:
Howdy
Sometime, I can connect to a customer system, and the vt100 terminal does a
great job of drawing lines.
Other time, I get + and - and | characters instead.
A clue please? Where do I start troubleshooting this?
start with the $TERM environment variable.
curses applications use that to lookup the terminal characteristics.
(ncurses may also note that the locale is set to a UTF-8 value and
depending on the $TERM setting, decide that line-drawing won't work).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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