[SLL] Curses display issues?

[Randolph Bentson]

> Randolph Bentson wrote:
> >... It was resolved when I configured the proper terminal
> >emulation. There's no one correct way in what I did because the
> >real key is to get the display window's character processing in
> >sync with display mode (character set) the application is using.
> >This approach my apply to your situation.

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:54:29PM -0400, Mike Stunes wrote:
> First, looking through my logs I see that I updated ncurses
> recently.  Could that have something to do with it?

Possibly. There may have been a change to default, or how
ncurses determines what terminal your display is implementing.

> What's interesting is that this problem manifests itself no matter what 
> type of terminal I'm using--xterm, other X terminal, screen, virtual 
> console, ssh...

There seems to be two (or more?) independent issues: the terminal
being emulated (which deals with cursor control, etc.), and how
characters are interepreted for display (ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1,
etc.). It's fortunate that I don't deal with lots of different
systems because I haven't got my head firmly wrapped around how
these interact. I just end up poking at configuration options until
things work for me. BTW, I get best results when I set xterm + UTF-8,
but YMMV.

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Randolph Bentson
bentson at holmsjoen.com