Frank Millman wrote: > Hi all > > The following is a message I sent to co.os.linux.setup - > > "My question concerns line graphics on a text-based console. My > actual problem relates to a [Python] program I have written using > ncurses, but you can easily test it by running a program like > minicom. > > If you call up the minicom menu, it should be surrounded by a nice > box made up of horizontal and vertical lines, corners, etc. It used to > work up until Redhat 7. Since upgrading to Redhat 9, and now Fedora, > it (and my program) has stopped working." > > I received the following reply from Thomas Dickey - > > "That's because Redhat uses UTF-8 locales, and the Linux console > ignores vt100 line-drawing when it is set for UTF-8. (screen also > does this)."
For the record, I have found a solution, or at least a workaround. I received the following suggestion from Steve (thanks Steve) - "As a quick check to see if it's only the UTF-8 locales that are affecting your program, try invoking your program, like so: $ LANG=C <your-proggy>" I tried this, but it did not work. However, it felt as if it ought to, so I sent another message to Thomas Dickey (who, I have discovered, is the maintainer of the ncurses library). He replied that the console is probably still in unicode mode, but you can turn it off with 'unicode_stop'. I tried this and it worked :-) - I did not even have to change the LANG or TERM settings. Obviously this will not work if you need unicode, but luckily for me I do not, so it is a perfect workaround. Frank Millman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
