I suspect this may be related to UTF. /etc/sysconfig/i18n
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, armen wrote:
I've recently installed redhat fedora core 3 on a dell poweredge server and I'm running into an unusual issue with what seems to be either termcap or ncurses or both. When I connect using PuTTY (claiming a terminal type of XTERM) on a windows-based system, ncurses applications behave more-or-less normally. When I run these applications inside screen, the vertical and horizonal line super-ascii characters appear as A's with an umlaut over them.
The real issue occurs when I connect from a FreeBSD system (claiming term type xterm-color.) When I run ncurses applications outside of screen, formatting is horribly broken, with columns displayed out of order, a constant stream of backslashes displayed across the input line, and with everything I type being escaped.
When I run the apps in screen (when connecting from FreeBSD) the formatting is off, but in a different way, and the input line is highlighted incorrectly.
I've tried replacing termcap and terminfo entries from a working system and I've tried setting different term types before I connect, but nothing seems to help.
I've also noticed that if I connect to the a working server from the broken one (via ssh) the apps format and display properly.
All components, including termcap/terminfo and ncurses are stock redhat-supplied installations and this problem exhibits itself in both redhat supplied and custom compiled ncurses applications.
Any help, advice, or insight would be greatly appreciated as I cannot seem to make any headway against this issue. I'd be more than happy to provide copies of termcap, terminfo files, inputrc files, etc from the working system (an older redhat variant for ppc) and the troublesome system if requested.
armen
