Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:54:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Andrew B. Clegg" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ncurses line drawing characters terminfo problem? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Andrew B. Clegg wrote: > Hi folks, > > First off thanks all for the continuing good work on Cygwin and all its > packages. > > I have a question regarding ncurses... > > When I run the test executables in /bin/ncurses-test-dll, line-drawing > graphics characters come out as high-ascii latin-1 characters, e.g. > capital As with umlauts or upside-down question marks. > > This behaviour is the same in Windows console windows and in rxvt in > Windows mode (haven't tried it in X mode). I've tried various settings for > the TERM variable (cygwin, xterm, ansi, vt100) and although they all > display different characters, none of them actually come out with line art > characters. > > I've also tried changing my font from Lucida Console to Raster Fonts in > the hope that might make a difference, but it doesn't. > > I haven't messed with my terminfo/termcap; any ideas what's going wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > > Andrew. Try adding "codepage:oem" to your CYGWIN environment variable. See for details. This setting is effective for each individual process, so you can set it in the shell just before you run the tests. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/