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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:20:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: line drawing and display and xterms
Message-ID:  <535885508.29481003.1429010455007.JavaMail.root@his.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150414103450.GA64268@potato.growveg.org>

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----- Original Message -----
| From: "John" <freebsd-lists@potato.growveg.org>
| To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
| Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 6:34:50 AM
| Subject: line drawing and display and xterms
| 
| Hello -questions,
| 
| If I ssh from a freebsd 11 machine to a 10.1R machine, where I'm
| running
| amongst other things, mutt and slrn in a screen(1) - if I resume the
| respective screen, all the nice lines showing threading turn into
| escape
| characters and mess up the display. What am I doing wrong?
| 
| If I ssh into the machine then export an xterm over ssh then resume
| the
| screen, it displays normally. I've not tried with other makes of
| xterm.

The usual pitfalls here:

a) xterm honors VT100 line-drawing in UTF-8 mode
b) some other terminals do not
c) screen(1) does not
d) screen(1) honors VT100 line-drawing when not in UTF-8 mode

So the first thing to investigate is whether screen(1) run from the
two scenarios has consistent locale settings.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net



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