Ncurses and special characters
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Tue Oct 16 21:33:00 GMT 2001
BMetzenthen@cochlear.com.au wrote:
> I am having trouble with the display of special characters with ncurses.
>
> I assume that this is o.k.:
>
> $ set | grep TERM
> TERM=cygwin
>
> tput won't initialise this terminal:
>
> $ tput init
> tput: unknown terminfo capability 'init'
I guess there is no terminfo entry called 'init' in the cygwin terminfo
record. Perhaps it is unneeded?
>
> and the line drawing characters are wrong, e.g. with the demo programs in
> /bin/ncurses-test-dll. A '3' appears instead of a vertical line, etc.
add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable.
--Chuck
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list