Re: Quetion on curses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:34:16PM +0100, pradeep kumar wrote:
> sir,
>       i had redhat linux 8.0 installed in system.when
> i am running the ncurses in the console terminal which
> has ACS characters, it couldn't be displayed
> properly.but it's working well with the
> xterminal(except blinking).do i have to do any tweaks
> or anthing else.

Redhat 8 sets UTF-8 mode for the Linux console, which makes it ignore
the vt100-compatible line-drawing.  There's a different way to draw
them; I added that in the post-5.3 patches. See my faq, and

        ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.3

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