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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:54:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Andrew B. Clegg wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> First off thanks all for the continuing good work on Cygwin and all its
> packages.
>
> I have a question regarding ncurses...
>
> When I run the test executables in /bin/ncurses-test-dll, line-drawing
> graphics characters come out as high-ascii latin-1 characters, e.g.
> capital As with umlauts or upside-down question marks.
>
> This behaviour is the same in Windows console windows and in rxvt in
> Windows mode (haven't tried it in X mode). I've tried various settings for
> the TERM variable (cygwin, xterm, ansi, vt100) and although they all
> display different characters, none of them actually come out with line art
> characters.
>
> I've also tried changing my font from Lucida Console to Raster Fonts in
> the hope that might make a difference, but it doesn't.
>
> I haven't messed with my terminfo/termcap; any ideas what's going wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Andrew.

Try adding "codepage:oem" to your CYGWIN environment variable.  See
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html> for details.  This
setting is effective for each individual process, so you can set it in the
shell just before you run the tests.
	Igor
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