Re: redhat 8.0, make menuconfig, termino...

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:17:05PM -0600, Cameron, Steve wrote:
> 
> I noticed on redhat 8.0, trying to compile the linux 
> kernel, make menuconfig using "TERM=linux" on the vga
> console gets weird results (menus aren't drawn correctly.)

Redhat 8.0 sets UTF-8 locale by default.  That doesn't work for the normal
ncurses library.  ncurses 5.3 can be compiled with wide-character support to
accommodate this.

I started working on fixes for this configuration recently, see that some
applications such as screen (which is in that case ignoring part of the
terminal description) don't work with that (will have a patch for _that_ this
weekend).
 
> I tried lots of other values for TERM listed in /etc/termcap,
> but found none that worked right.
> My attempts to google the problem turned up no solution...
> 
> Anybody know what the problem is, and/or a fix/workaround/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- steve
> 
> p.s.  I tried to subscribe, not sure if it succeeded, so
> cc me on replies, (if you don't mind)
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