Hi Stephen, I've enjoyed reading your well-written and thoroughly researched posts. Have you considered putting them somewhere else, e.g. the Debian wiki?
One point: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:11:41PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > One of the things I recommended was setting the terminal type string to > xterm-utf8. I asked myself "why"? Reading your original message, this is because this enables a) xterm window title strings and b) non-VT100 box drawing characters. So there's two plusses, but > In particular, the "--color=auto" option of the "ls" command behaves > sub-optimally. In wheezy, some of the colors, such as red, don't display. > In an up-to-date jessie system, no color output occurs at all. One minus, > The problem is that xterm-utf8 is not listed in the dircolors internal > database of terminal types that support color. It should be. Who says it should be? I don't mean to be combative, I just wonder who has authority over the definition of 'valid' TERM values. Where did xterm-utf8 come from? Which software specifically supports it? Evidently dircolors doesn't. >From what I can tell, dircolors has it's own private database, but much other software uses 'terminfo', which in practice is part of ncurses nowadays. Looking at ncurses in sid, I see there is an xterm-utf8 definition there. Is the fact putty can't handle vt100 line drawing characters in UTF8 mode a font problem perhaps? Would using a different font be a better solution? What results do you get if you try a different TERM value, such as xterm-256color? With that, at least, you'd have the benefit of 8 bit colour options too. For reference, here's the internal DB for dircolors/ls/coreutils http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/dircolors.hin And here's the master DB for terminfo in ncurses: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/ncurses.git/tree/misc/terminfo.src -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140926135344.GC7563@debian
