Re: Problems with ncurses 5.2-28 in RedHat 8.0

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:49:13AM -0500, Billy Davis wrote:
> 
> We have an ncurses based application that has been running great under RedHat
> 7.3.  We just recompiled it under RedHat 8.0, ncurses version 5.2-28, and it
> compiled fine.  However, at run time our window borders are invisible, and
> the window headings are all positioned in column 1 of each line, rather than
> being centered at the top of the window.  There are also MANY other minor
> changes in the window content display.  We copied our RH7.3 run times over to
> 8.0 and experienced the same effect.  Is this a known problem?  ..  and is
> there a fix for it?

sounds like you're running in the console.  Linux console...

basically, if you run with the UTF-8 support, all of the vt100 line-drawing
stuff is ignored.  Redhat 8.0 does this.

ncurses 5.3 + rollup patch through the end of December can be configured to
build libncursesw, which works around this.

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