[gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

[gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

[Robert Persson]

For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc 
and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed 
in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole.  Rectangular frames 
are absent, columns don't line up, the wrong character disappears when I hit 
backspace, and so on, to the point of making the applications unusable.

Any ideas?

Many thanks
Robert


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Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

[Peter Gordon]

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On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc 
> and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed 
> in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole.  Rectangular frames 
> are absent, columns don't line up, the wrong character disappears when I hit 
> backspace, and so on, to the point of making the applications unusable.

I've had that issues with the kernel configuration too at times. What
are your locale settings? (LC_ALL and LANG)

If you're using UTF-8, are you sure that you have UNICODE="yes" in your
/etc/rc.conf?

Hope this helps.

--Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

[Robert Persson]

On October 28, 2005 10:50 pm Peter Gordon was like:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> > For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g.
> > mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly
>
> I've had that issues with the kernel configuration too at times. What
> are your locale settings? (LC_ALL and LANG)

Thanks Peter!

For some reason my /etc/env.d/02locale was missing.  Creating a new one solved 
the problem.
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Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

[Rodney Gordon II]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 02:37:02PM -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> On October 28, 2005 10:50 pm Peter Gordon was like:
> > On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> > > For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g.
> > > mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly
> >
> > I've had that issues with the kernel configuration too at times. What
> > are your locale settings? (LC_ALL and LANG)
> 
> Thanks Peter!
> 
> For some reason my /etc/env.d/02locale was missing.  Creating a new one solved 
> the problem.

Out of curiosity, how did you create one?
I have the same issue, mine is missing for some reason..

-r
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Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

[Robert Persson]

On October 29, 2005 06:31 pm Rodney Gordon II was like:
> > For some reason my /etc/env.d/02locale was missing.  Creating a new one
> > solved the problem.
>
> Out of curiosity, how did you create one?
> I have the same issue, mine is missing for some reason..

Nothing fancy, Im afraid.  I just did

nano -w /etc/env.d/02locale

Mine reads:

LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

Theres a page on gentoo.org with instructions.  There's another line you need 
if you live in Euroland.

Robert
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