Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2006-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:37:58AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:25:24AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: The code's doing what it is intended: when screen is running in UTF-8 mode

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2006-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:25:24AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: The code's doing what it is intended: when screen is running in UTF-8 mode, it ignores the termcap information, only accepts the UTF-8 encoding for line-drawing characters. No, that's

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2006-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Juergen Weigert wrote: That is odd. We should ask upstream ncurses when and why this code appeared. Upstream is still Thomas Dickey, right? Thomas, are you following this? now I am (I'm not on screen-users). This workaround is in ncurses 5.4, first appeared shortly after

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2006-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:19:38PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: ... Don't ask me, I'm not aware of any problems screen has with UTF-8. Maybe Thomas Dickey, the ncurses author, can shed some light on this. The code's doing what it is intended: wh

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:37:58AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:25:24AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>The code's doing what it is intended: when screen is running in UTF-8 > >>mode, it ignores the termcap information,

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:25:24AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > The code's doing what it is intended: when screen is running in UTF-8 > mode, it ignores the termcap information, only accepts the UTF-8 encoding > for line-drawing characters. No, that's not right. There once was a version of scre

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2005-07-18 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Juergen Weigert wrote: > On Jul 17, 05 21:19:38 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > ncurses-5.4/ncurses/tinfo/lib_setup.c: > > > > /* > > * Check for known broken cases where a UTF-8 locale breaks the alternate > > * character set. > > */ > > NCURSES_EXPORT(int) > > _nc_locale_breaks_acs(void)

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2005-07-18 Thread Juergen Weigert
CC added:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jul 17, 05 21:19:38 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > OK, so once again something weird happened while I was using a ncurses > application in screen. It's been working fine for a long time and then > boom, something weird's going on, I'm not getting pretty line-drawing

Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:19:38PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > OK, so once again something weird happened while I was using a ncurses > application in screen. It's been working fine for a long time and then > boom, something weird's going on, I'm not getting pretty line-drawing > characters an

Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

2005-07-17 Thread Nikolai Weibull
OK, so once again something weird happened while I was using a ncurses application in screen. It's been working fine for a long time and then boom, something weird's going on, I'm not getting pretty line-drawing characters any more. So I swear a bit and begin looking into screen, ncurses, and the