HEADS UP: ncurses is updated

[Rong-en Fan]

On 4/10/07, Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal at zone3000.net> wrote:
> On Monday,  9 April 2007 at 11:48:08 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:21:08AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:49:32AM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > > > On 4/10/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > >The only thing I've found, though, is that dialog(1) does not appear to
> > > > >properly handle UTF-8 encoding.  Line drawing characters show up as
> > > > >gibberish (alphanumeric characters).  I realise dialog isn't part of
> > > > >ncurses, but it does rely on it.  We should consider updating dialog to
> > > > >match this change.
> > > >
> > > > You mean it display sometihng like "tqxu" instead of line drawing
> > > > characters?
> > > > Last time I checked, I thought it is terminal related. When I use screen, it
> > > > uses line drawing character. For PuTTY, see:
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-April/146577.html
> >
> > This is quite applicable.  I just now got around to reading it
> > (should've done this before I sent my previous Email).  Yep, that's the
> > exact problem:
> >
> > /usr/bin/dialog:
> >       libdialog.so.5 => /usr/lib/libdialog.so.5 (0x3807e000)
> >       libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x38099000)
> >       libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x380dd000)
> >
> > At least I have a workaround with NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1.  :-)
>
> I am not sure, but maybe this is related to ncurses update. I am getting
> this trying to run sysinstall utility:
>
> Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...BARF 170 <105>
>
> Than goes EOL and exit...
>
> It's a current from April 6.

The ncurses update to 5.6 is in late Jan, and enable wide character support it
in late Feb. My sysinstall runs just fine under console and rxvt-unicode
on my currenct as of yesterday.

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