Re: Bug report: Dialog showing garbled characters on Mac Terminal

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 06:06:47AM +0000, Tejas Mulay wrote:
> Hi Dickey,
> 
> As per instructions at https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html#bugs , 
> I am reporting below bug for dialog on MAC terminal.
> 
> 
> # rpm -q dialog
> 
> dialog-1.3-13.20171209.el8.x86_64

It looks as if you've set TERM=linux and are attempting to display on
a terminal using UTF-8 encoding.  Mac Terminal's terminal description
is "nsterm" (or if you don't care much about accuracy, "xterm", etc).

The "linux" terminal description provided by Apple is an older version
of ncurses terminal database using codes that will be misdisplayed in
UTF-8.
 
> Msgbox cmd: dialog --title "This is title" --ok-label "OK" --msgbox "This is 
> message" 20 40
> 
> [cid:image001.png@01D8CDAE.6DFB50E0]
> 
> 
> Inputbox cmd: dialog --backtitle "This is backtitle" --title "This is title" 
> --ok-label "OK" --cancel-label "Cancel"  --inputbox "This is input" 20 40
> 
> [cid:image002.png@01D8CDAE.6DFB50E0]
> The dialog box show garbled characters and inputbox is not properly shown.
> 
> Regards,
> Tejas.
> 
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