On 2012-03-27 23:22 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:58:42PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:10:42PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>> > * Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> [2012-03-27 19:54 +0200]:
>> >
>> > > Am 27.03.2012 um 17:34 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter:
>> > >
>> > > > * Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> [2012-03-27 17:06 +0200]:
>> > [...]
>> > > >> This combination is asking for trouble since you will generally not be
>> > > >> able to display non-ASCII characters with it. At least LC_MESSAGES
>> > > >> and
>> > > >> LC_CTYPE must both be set to a UTF-8 locale or both to a legacy
>> > > >> locale.
>> > > >
>> > > > Exporting LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 doesn't display ACS characters here.
>> > >
>> > > You have to put the console into unicode mode first, e.g. by running
>> > > unicode_start. Does it work then?
>> >
>> > Mostly. German Umlauts and ⬠(Euro-Sign) isn't accepted.
>
> A simpler solution would be to set TERM to the older entry,
> i.e., "linux2.2".
This has the drawback that it is likely not available on remote systems
you may want to connect to.
> As I recall, the main reason why the change for #515609 was accepted was
> considering the non-ncurses uses (such as termcap applications and slang).
Incidentally, I reproduced the problem in Midnight Commander which is
linked against slang rather than ncurses.
Cheers,
Sven
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