Re: Line Drawing and Unicode

[Christ, Bryan]

TERM=linux

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 11:51 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Christ, Bryan wrote:
> 
> > I would like to do some line-drawing on the Linux console, but when in
> > unicode mode, the ACS_ characters don't show up (blank spaces and such
> > where the lines should be).  How can I do line drawing WITHOUT linking
> > against ncursesw and using the wide functions?  I noticed that Midnight
> > Command does line drawing without using ncursesw, but looking through
> > the source code with all the slang macros been very time consuming.  I
> > thought that simply exporting NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS would work, but it
> > does not.
> 
> I wouldn't expect it to.
> 
> If the Linux console's in UTF-8 mode (ironic, since UTF-8 is ostensibly 
> modeless), you cannot use the VT100 controls to draw lines.  ncurses tries 
> to see this, and if it knows, is supposed to use +'s and -'s to draw 
> lines.
> 
> Since the only clue it has is from environment variables, it
> can be confused.  What's $TERM set to?
>