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Re: Ncurses and special characters
- To: BMetzenthen at cochlear dot com dot au
- Subject: Re: Ncurses and special characters
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:33:47 -0400
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <OFC2295CC3.A4EB5DEA-ONCA256AE8.000347C3@cochlear.com.au>
BMetzenthen@cochlear.com.au wrote:
> 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'
I guess there is no terminfo entry called 'init' in the cygwin terminfo
record. Perhaps it is unneeded?
>
> 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.
add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable.
--Chuck
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