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Date:      Sat, 6 Jan 2024 08:06:41 +0100 (CET)
From:      freebsd@oldach.net (Helge Oldach)
To:        pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, bapt@freebsd.org, alfix86@gmail.com, asiciliano@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports-mgmt/portconfig surprize
Message-ID:  <202401060706.40676fN6057546@nuc.oldach.net>
In-Reply-To: <ZZdAz2EM2htYzfX9@disp.intra.daemon.contact> from Peter at "5 Jan 2024 00:35:43"

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Peter wrote on Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:35:43 +0100 (CET):
> Folks,
> 
>   somebody got the idea to replace the dialog4ports options
> configuring interface by something named 'ports-mgmt/portconfig'.
> (And they did not even find it worth mentioning this in the
> UPGRADING file.)
> 
> Now this one looks terrible, the screen is garbled, and it is
> quite unintellegible which line is currently entered.
> See pictures here (old and new):
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/2024q1-portbuild-trouble.91770/post-636816
> 
> What is happening:
> I am starting a shell script. That fires up a bhyve. In the bhyve 'make'
> is run with stdio connected to the second COM.
> In the script on the host, bhyve is put in background, 'cu' is started
> and connected to that second COM. There the dialog appears.
> Since the script on the host is run from remote, it is run within
> tmux.
> Point is: it did work before.

I suspect that this has to do with the fact that Mk/Scripts/dialog4ports.sh
*enforces* the C.UTF-8 locale even if the terminal doesn't support
it well, or not at all. (Note that also your first screenshot shows
artifacts left to the '[' character.)

That is PR 275364?

Kind regards
Helge



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