Charles Wilson wrote:
Strangely, if I set TERM=rxvt-cygwin-native , use luconP as my font , it
does NOT matter whether my CYGWIN variable has codepage:oem,
codepage:ansi, or neither. The following behaviors are the same:
ascii.exe prints the line draw characters
pstree -G prints garbage
It *could be* due to the fact that pstree uses ncurses, and ascii does
not. Checking...
Hmmm. /usr/lib/ncurses/test/ncurses.exe (part of the ncurses-demo
package) turns the screen black-on-black when I try to check the
line-draw characters. So I can't even tell if ACS chars with ncurses is
broken -- first I gotta figure out why the colors are getting scrogged
by the test program! Somebody, like the ncurses maintainer, should fix
that.
Oh. That'd be me, then. Ooops. I'll try to look into it soon, but PTC.
Okay, so I've looked into this.
(1) the ncurses "problem" is not a problem. The ncurses.exe test
program leaves the decision as to whether to use colorfgbg() defaults up
to the user (-a fg,bg to explicitly specify defaults, -d to inherit
defaults from rxvt, or '' to use the DEFAULT defaults. Which is,
apparently, black on black -- at least when run in an rxvt shell.)
So, running ncurses.exe with -d, (or, for that matter, the hideous -a
1,4 == red-on-blue, unless you've redefined rxvt's colors) works fine.
With
rxvt -fn 'Lucida ConsoleP-16' -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash
I get nice line draw characters from the ncurses.exe test program. With
rxvt -fn 'Lucida Console-16' -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash
I get "european" characters where the line drawing ones used to be. Just
as expected. Also, codepage:oem|ansi has no effect -- it only applies
when using the windows console, not when using rxvt.
(2) So why does pstree misbehave? Because it's hardcoded to use VT-100
control characters for line drawing. But that's EXACTLY where rxvt
differs from VT-100 (and where rxvt-cygwin differs from rxvt, and where
rxvt-cygwin-native differs from them all).
pstree SHOULD be using tgetent() calls to dynamically obtain the
appropriate line-drawing character codes and escape sequences from
ncurses/terminfo. But it doesn't.
(There's also a similar bug in that it doesn't always calculate
accurately the width of strings in which these line-draw chars are
embedded...but that's a whole 'nother thing.)
Basically, pstree -G should be rewritten; it's just not going to work on
cygwin's rxvt (native or X) very well.
"It's surely evil code"
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265552
Basically, you're stuck with 'pstree -A'.
--
Chuck
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