Termcap/Terminfo & Ncurses

[armen]

Indeed, changing LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to LANG="en_US" seems to fix the 
screen-via-putty issues.  I'll have to wait until later in the day to 
check out the results on my FreeBSD system, although I suspect that's 
been fixed by this change as well.  Now that I know *what* was causing 
this issue, I'll have to put some time into learning more about *why* 
and what the purpose of the initial entry in /etc/sysconfig/i18n was.
Thanks very much for the insight.  You've single-handedly restored my 
faith in mailing lists.
Now...anyone want to tackle some IPMI issues?  Eh, I'll bring those up 
later.
Thanks again.
armen

Justin Zygmont wrote:
> I suspect this may be related to UTF.  /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, armen wrote:
> 
>> I've recently installed redhat fedora core 3 on a dell poweredge 
>> server and I'm running into an unusual issue with what seems to be 
>> either termcap or ncurses or both. When I connect using PuTTY 
>> (claiming a terminal type of XTERM) on a windows-based system, ncurses 
>> applications behave more-or-less normally. When I run these 
>> applications inside screen, the vertical and horizonal line 
>> super-ascii characters appear as A's with an umlaut over them.
>> The real issue occurs when I connect from a FreeBSD system (claiming 
>> term type xterm-color.) When I run ncurses applications outside of 
>> screen, formatting is horribly broken, with columns displayed out of 
>> order, a constant stream of backslashes displayed across the input 
>> line, and with everything I type being escaped.
>> When I run the apps in screen (when connecting from FreeBSD) the 
>> formatting is off, but in a different way, and the input line is 
>> highlighted incorrectly.
>> I've tried replacing termcap and terminfo entries from a working 
>> system and I've tried setting different term types before I connect, 
>> but nothing seems to help.
>> I've also noticed that if I connect to the a working server from the 
>> broken one (via ssh) the apps format and display properly.
>> All components, including termcap/terminfo and ncurses are stock 
>> redhat-supplied installations and this problem exhibits itself in both 
>> redhat supplied and custom compiled ncurses applications.
>> Any help, advice, or insight would be greatly appreciated as I cannot 
>> seem to make any headway against this issue. I'd be more than happy to 
>> provide copies of termcap, terminfo files, inputrc files, etc from the 
>> working system (an older redhat variant for ppc) and the troublesome 
>> system if requested.
>> armen
>>
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