lines mangled with screen

[A. Craig West]

>Under gnome term and screen (3.09.13 on Redhat 9) the fancy lines from
>dialog(1) are not being rendered as lines but non-representational ascii
>characters.  I suspect that they are part of the various escape codes to
>describe lines.

>An example of the problem: http://www.ciphermonkeys.org/~po/screen/

>My .screenrc has only one line:
>hardstatus alwayslastline "%-w%{.wB}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{.w} %H: %l %{-}%d/%m
>%c"

>It works fine under gnome-term but not gnome-term + screen.
>Interestingly, dialog renders correctly under xterm + screen and rvxt +
>screen.  I think that suggests it's an interaction problem between
>gnome-term and screen, but what is the remedy?

I saw an earlier message from Po Petz about a similar problem with ncurses
line drawing characters being mangled when displayed in a screen session on a
gnome term. In my case, it is being displayed in a Cygwin bash window, and
the screen version in use is 4.00.01. The symptoms appear to be VERY similar,
though. Does anybody know what could be causing this?

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