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Subject:	Ncurses and special characters
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From:	BMetzenthen AT cochlear DOT com DOT au
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:00:43 +1000
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	12:05:42 PM
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I am having trouble with the display of special characters with ncurses.

I assume that this is o.k.:

$ set  |  grep TERM
TERM=cygwin

tput won't initialise this terminal:

$ tput init
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'init'

and the line drawing characters are wrong, e.g. with the demo programs in
/bin/ncurses-test-dll.  A '3' appears instead of a vertical line, etc.

These problems are the same on two machines, one running NT, the other
Windows 98.  Changing TERM to ansi-nt gives the correct ascii approximation
to the line drawing characters (but not what I want) and messes up the
arrow keys, etc.

Is this normal?  Or can someone suggest what I am doing wrong.

Thanks,
Bill

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