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Subject: Re: line drawing and display and xterms
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 07:20:55AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> 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.

Hi,

Yeah that makes sense. Not solved it all yet though, even when setting 
both sides of the connection to:

set LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-1
set LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO8859-1"
set LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO8859-1"
set LC_TIME="en_GB.ISO8859-1"
set LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.ISO8859-1"
set LC_MONETARY="en_GB.ISO8859-1"
set LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-1"
set LC_ALL=


It may be worth noting here that screen seems to make a default 
$HOME/.screenrc with just the following: 

defencoding utf8
encoding utf8 utf8

I've commented these out for now and have restarted the screens.
-- 
John