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

[Tejas Mulay]

Thanks. Will check and update.

Regards,
Tejas.

On 22/09/22, 6:00 AM, "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com> wrote:

    On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 08:30:05AM +0000, Tejas Mulay wrote:
    > Hi Thomas,
    > 
    > Thanks for quick response.
    > 
    > Here is what I see on termimal -
    > % echo $TERM
    > xterm-256color
    > 
    > What value do I need to set to make this work?

    I'm not sure: it looks like a configuration problem rather than a bug.

    Your message said

    dialog-1.3-13.20171209.el8.x86_64

    which is a version of dialog almost 5 years old, on RHEL8
    (and the version of Terminal.app is not mentioned).

    fwiw, Fedora has newer versions:

    https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dialog

    but since it doesn't look like any of the bugs that I recall,
    it seems to be configuration.  If I had that firsthand, I'd
    collect the output to the terminal using "script",

    script -c 'dialog --title "This is title" --ok-label "OK" --msgbox "This is 
message" 20 40'

    and examine the output e.g., using "unmap"

    https://invisible-island.net/misc_tools/index.html#item:unmap


    > Regards,
    > Tejas.
    > 
    > On 21/09/22, 1:43 PM, "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com> wrote:
    > 
    >     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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