Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:03:54 +0300 From: Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal@zone3000.net> To: Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, ache@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ncurses is updated Message-ID: <20070409200354.GA15020@zone3000.net> In-Reply-To: <20070409184808.GA17933@icarus.home.lan> References: <6eb82e0704061105u1f2c2fedr95ceae1393c66b6c@mail.gmail.com> <20070409163354.GA15528@icarus.home.lan> <6eb82e0704091049u256f649ei80537fac7b876a92@mail.gmail.com> <20070409182108.GA17450@icarus.home.lan> <20070409184808.GA17933@icarus.home.lan>
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On Monday, 9 April 2007 at 11:48:08 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:21:08AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:49:32AM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > > On 4/10/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >The only thing I've found, though, is that dialog(1) does not appear to > > > >properly handle UTF-8 encoding. Line drawing characters show up as > > > >gibberish (alphanumeric characters). I realise dialog isn't part of > > > >ncurses, but it does rely on it. We should consider updating dialog to > > > >match this change. > > > > > > You mean it display sometihng like "tqxu" instead of line drawing > > > characters? > > > Last time I checked, I thought it is terminal related. When I use screen, it > > > uses line drawing character. For PuTTY, see: > > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-April/146577.html > > This is quite applicable. I just now got around to reading it > (should've done this before I sent my previous Email). Yep, that's the > exact problem: > > /usr/bin/dialog: > libdialog.so.5 => /usr/lib/libdialog.so.5 (0x3807e000) > libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x38099000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x380dd000) > > At least I have a workaround with NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1. :-) I am not sure, but maybe this is related to ncurses update. I am getting this trying to run sysinstall utility: Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...BARF 170 <105> Than goes EOL and exit... It's a current from April 6. -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ======================================================================
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