On 2012-03-31 22:51 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Elimar's probably can probably be solved by setting TERM to linux2.2
As I said, this solution is far from ideal as it forces changing TERM
when connecting to systems who do not have the latest and greatest
terminfo descriptions.
> However, I don't have enough information to see whether changing the
> default behavior was a bad idea or a good one.
How about running a test, e.g. like this:
LC_ALL=C dialog --infobox "Line drawing characters garbled" 24 80
I see lots of 'Ã' characters at the top/bottom and '³' characters on the
left and right margins.
> That comes down to
> seeing which group is largest:
>
> a) ncurses users are largely unaffected (except for those doing
> remote logins from one Linux console to another Linux system
> with different kernel versions hence different default TERM
> settings).
>
> I did spend some time attempting to identify the first kernel
> version in which the SI/SO change _actually_ appeared. Let's
> not go there - it's enough to point out that by the time it
> was actually delivered, it was at least 5 years overdue ;-)
>
> b) users with workarounds for Linux console quirks (as Elimar
> appears to be) are affected.
>
> c) some unspecified number of users would like to use tput for
> drawing lines (they're affected). I'd expect only a small
> fraction of those to be slang users (simply because they
> generally would use slang's quirks rather than script with
> tput).
And what about
e) sysadmins who run their system with LANG=C and see garbage on
the screen now whenever they install a package that asks a
question via debconf?
Those are the ones who are affected now.
Cheers,
Sven
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