ports/185526: weechat problem after upgrading to ncurses-5.9.20131221

[Simeon Simeonov]

>Number:         185526
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       weechat problem after upgrading to ncurses-5.9.20131221
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 06 09:10:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Simeon Simeonov
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
FreeBSD SagaBOX 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #0 r259301: Fri Dec 13 13:49:00 CET 2013     root at SagaBOX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SagaBOX  amd64
>Description:
The vertical bar (separating channel and nicklist) displays random characters instead of a vertical line.

http://gnulover.simeonov.no/files/weechat.png  <-- screenshot can be seen here.

After consulting the developers at #weechat @ Freenode, they pointed out that the problem is probably with ncurses.

More information:

 - term: echo $TERM -> xterm
 - /charset in weechat -> weechat | charset: terminal: UTF-8, internal: UTF-8


# cat /var/db/ports/devel_ncurses/options 

# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
# Options for ncurses-5.9.20131221
_OPTIONS_READ=ncurses-5.9.20131221
_FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=DEBUG DOCS EXAMPLES PROFILE TRACE
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DEBUG
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DOCS
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=EXAMPLES
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PROFILE
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=TRACE


# cat /var/db/ports/irc_weechat/options

# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
# Options for weechat-0.4.2
_OPTIONS_READ=weechat-0.4.2
_FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=ASPELL BACKTRACE CHARSET COLOR256 DOCUMENTATION GNUTLS ICON LUA MANPAGES NLS PERL PYTHON RUBY TCL
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=ASPELL
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=BACKTRACE
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=CHARSET
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=COLOR256
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DOCUMENTATION
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=GNUTLS
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=ICON
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=LUA
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=MANPAGES
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=NLS
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PERL
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=PYTHON
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=RUBY
OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=TCL

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
/set weechat.look.separator_vertical | 

makes things better

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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