Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C3C13DB.3020906@syntrex.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:56:43 +0100 From: Pavel Tsekov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin console References: <20020108113417.A8402@infosat.net> <6374-Tue08Jan2002111758+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <1126157253.20020108122424@familiehaase.de> <5519-Tue08Jan2002114553+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <3C3B005B.D121F781 <3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Oooops! Sorry, for the wrong info - seems I'm more stupid than usual today :( egor duda wrote: > Hi! > > Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 Pavel Tsekov ptsekov@syntrex.com wrote: > > >>>its very good. Bad i have some program with ncurses. On the screen i >>>see the box() function in curses creates an ugly looking box, where the >>>extended characters drawing the box (ACS_VLINE, ACS_HLINE) are replaced >>>with characters from the lower ASCII set (3 and Ä). This code works fine >>>under VT100 terminal settings. >>> > > PT> If you set the global CYGWIN environment variable to codepage:ansi the > PT> problem should disappear - or am I wrong ? > > exactly the opposite. codepage:ansi is a default setting, and to draw > "pretty boxes" one should use codepage:oem. Ain't it mentioned in > ncurses README? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/