[ncurses] strange characters with rxvt

[Pavel Tsekov]

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jeff Hawk wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: On Behalf
>> Of Didier BRETIN
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:00 AM
>> To: Cygwin at Cygwin dot com
>> Subject: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have installed ncurses and ncurses-demo on an XP box. I launch the
>> demo in a cmd window and in a rxvt. I have strange characters in the
>> rxvt, as you can see at
>> http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ncursesrxvtiu6.jpg
>>
>> I use rxvt without X.
>>
>> Did I miss something in the configuration of rxvt ?
>>
>
> From the rxvt website:
> rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much less swap space.
>
> Therefore, rxvt is intended for X.
>
> As you are running it, it does not support the line drawing character sets.

This is not true. Please, take a look here:

   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg01021.html

1) Basically you need to get the following font:

    http://dessent.net/tmp/luconP.zip

2) Set the TERM environment variable to rxvt-cygwin-native

3) Run rxvt like this:

    rxvt -fn "Lucida ConsoleP-14" other-options-here

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