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Re: Ncurses and special characters


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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