Re: ACS/UTF-8 Line Drawing Question

[Marc Smith]

Thanks; I tried setting the terminal string to "putty" in PuTTY when
connecting, and I still get the letters instead of ACS line
characters. I checked 'infocmp' when using this:

--snip--
address@hidden ~]# infocmp
#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/p/putty
putty|PuTTY terminal emulator,
        am, bce, bw, ccc, hs, mir, msgr, xenl, xon,
        colors#8, it#8, ncv#22, pairs#64,
        acsc=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
        bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, civis=\E[?25l,
        clear=\E[H\E[J, cnorm=\E[?25h, cr=^M,
        csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
        cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\ED, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
        cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\EM,
        dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P,
        address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@%e%p1%c%;,
        dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, dsl=\E]0;\007, ech=\E[%p1%dX,
        ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, enacs=\E(B\E)0,
        flash=\E[?5h\E[?5l, fsl=^G, home=\E[H, hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG,
        ht=^I, hts=\EH, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=^J,
        indn=\E[%p1%dS,
        
initc=\E]P%p1%x%p2%{255}%*%{1000}%/%02x%p3%{255}%*%{1000}%/%02x%p4%{255}%*%{1000}%/%02x,
        is2=\E7\E[r\E[m\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l\E[4l\E8\E>\E]R,
        kb2=\E[G, kbs=\177, kcan=^C, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\E[D,
        kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, kdch1=\E[3~,
        kend=\E[4~, kf1=\E[11~, kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[23~,
        kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[25~, kf14=\E[26~, kf15=\E[28~,
        kf16=\E[29~, kf17=\E[31~, kf18=\E[32~, kf19=\E[33~,
        kf2=\E[12~, kf20=\E[34~, kf3=\E[13~, kf4=\E[14~,
        kf5=\E[15~, kf6=\E[17~, kf7=\E[18~, kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~,
        khome=\E[1~, kich1=\E[2~, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~,
        kspd=^Z, nel=^M^J, oc=\E]R, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m,
        ri=\EM, rin=\E[%p1%dT, rmacs=^O, rmam=\E[?7l,
        rmcup=\E[2J\E[?47l, rmir=\E[4l, rmpch=\E[10m,
        rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m,
        rs2=\E<\E["p\E[50;6"p\Ec\E[?3l\E]R\E[?1000l,
        s0ds=\E[10m, s1ds=\E[11m, s2ds=\E[12m, sc=\E7,
        setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm,
        
sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p6%|%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;,
        sgr0=\E[m\017, smacs=^N, smam=\E[?7h, smcup=\E[?47h,
        smir=\E[4h, smpch=\E[11m, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m,
        tbc=\E[3g, tsl=\E]0;, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?6c,
        u9=\E[c, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,
--snip--

So it appears the entry for "putty" is in my terminal database.

I'm not sure if NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1 is required when using "putty"
for TERM -- I tried it both ways (set / not set) and still get letters
instead of lines. In that Stack Overflow article, the user resolved
their problem by using tmux or screen, but I'd prefer to not do that.

Any other ideas? I appreciate your time.


--Marc

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:43:29AM -0400, Marc Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a CDK application and I am experiencing the classic
>> "Line-drawing characters come out as x's and q's" problem with PuTTY.
>> I believe I have configured my system correctly for UTF-8 and I am
>> only using ncurses/CDK with wide-character support (only libncursesw
>> and libcdkw).
>>
>> I only experience this problem with PuTTY when in UTF-8 mode...
>> switching to Latin1 makes the line characters appear correctly. The
>> TERM is 'xterm' when using PuTTY (default). The default "Use Unicode
>> line drawing points" option is set in PuTTY.
>
> It sounds like this scenario:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37845244/acs-characters-not-working-in-putty-even-with-export-ncurses-no-utf8-acs-1/37847838#37847838
>
> --
> Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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