Re: mangled characters in Terminal

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Jamie,

I am using current SVN of gnustep and Terminal of CVS on Debian. I am 
using the Cairo backend. Using the "DejaVu Mono" font I can see manual 
pages or use emacs in terminal just fine.

Only programs like aptitude show funny characters in the semi-graphic 
chars of ncurses. I suppose some characters are missing. The program 
remains usable, just ugly.

On 01/07/2012 11:36 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I am using Debian stable 6.0. I installed a base system then installed 
> the GNUstep environment using the apt package manager. The only minor 
> issue i'm having is with text-based programs in the Terminal and with 
> wterm which I installed as well.
wterm is is not a gnustep program, it is a pure X program. It doesn't 
even use WINGs.
> Some of the punctuation characters in man pages, for example,  do not 
> appear correctly and programs that use the full terminal screen, like 
> mutt, also share this problem. Programs that use the curses library 
> such as the text-based package managment tools do not display properly 
> either.
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me to fix this, perhaps there is another 
> library I need to install? When I searched on the internet, I came 
> across a post where someone using Ubuntu reported a similar issue and 
> a reply he got suggested compiling GNUstep from source rather than 
> using binary packges. Do you think that would be necessary for this 
> problem?
If wterm has troubles, it looks as there is another problem with your 
installation.

Riccardo