Re: Newt/Slang and non VGA tty's.
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> > slang and ncurses in 7.3 don't support unicode. If you run
> > programs using those in a unicode locale, you'll have issues.
> > (ncurses in 8.0 still has problems in unicode, FWIW.)
>
> If I remember well this problem occured somewhere between
> rawhide-2002-08-30 and redhat-7.3.9[34] (limbo) when probably unicode
> support was added to ncusrses and slang packages.
>
> Anyway the problem is solvable (of course). My i18n config file
> looks like this:
>
> 09:15:42 blackblue (Mituc):~>cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> LANG="en_US"
> # SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
>
> After you modify /etc/sysconfig/i18n just do
> . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and your console will look fine again!:)
>
Thanks, that worked like a charm. Furthermore, man pages don't have
funny characters littered through out. Also, there was a perl library Date::Manip
which spewed unicode warnings everywhere and it no longer does this.
I realize this is only bandaging things, but for now this gets us moving.
Many Thanks...james
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