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Re: cygwin console


Oooops! Sorry, for the wrong info - seems I'm more stupid
than usual today :(

egor duda wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 Pavel Tsekov ptsekov@syntrex.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>>its very good. Bad i have some program  with ncurses. On the screen i
>>>see the box() function in curses creates an ugly looking box, where the 
>>>extended characters drawing the box (ACS_VLINE, ACS_HLINE) are replaced 
>>>with characters from the lower ASCII set (3 and Ä). This code works fine 
>>>under VT100 terminal settings.
>>>
> 
> PT> If you set the global CYGWIN environment variable to codepage:ansi the 
> PT> problem should disappear - or am I wrong ?
> 
> exactly the opposite. codepage:ansi is a default setting, and to draw
> "pretty boxes" one should use codepage:oem. Ain't it mentioned in
> ncurses README?



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