On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:32:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-04-01 08:32 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > 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. > > Incidentally, reverting the rmacs/smacs changes fixes that problem in > slang applications (mc and whiptail), but not in dialog. Do I need to > revert the sgr0 change for that?
yes - it has the same information. > > 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. > > I'll probably revert all the linux changes from the 20110716 patch, > since their outcome seems unacceptable to me. actually I've made changes to two parts (terminfo.src and the change to gen_edit.sh - but I recall your patch level is before the latter - 20110910). (sorry if I seem unresponsive - I didn't see further discussion, was trying to decide whether to make the 20110910 change explicitly configurable, and was investigating an issue related to my fix in st-256color). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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