On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:27:41PM +0530, Amish Munshi wrote:

Greetings,

Have any of you found a solution for the garbled text of Redhat 8.0. The ncurses library seems to be the problem - I am not sure though. For those who do not use RH 8.0, the problem is as follows, the display of most of the programs like ntsysv, cenetericq and various others is not aligned properly on the screen, also the screen is not refereshed when some changes are made and some new content is written above the old content on the screen. This happens in the text mode (non-GUI) and in all (xterm, konsole, etc) the terminal windows in the GUI as well.

I used Redhat 8 for a period of 2 months but found no such problem. The programs I tried were make menuconfig(for a new kernel) Konsole xterm naim BitchX All the above worked fine on my PC. So maybe it is related to some hardware specific stuff. It might help mentioning some h/w details. Also, you might want to try and "downgrade" the ncurses library to an older version. (I am saying this because I had similar problems in Mutt yesterday and downgrading Mutt solved the problem - wierd, yes but worked nonetheless).

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Amish Munshi wrote:

Have any of you found a solution for the garbled text of Redhat 8.0. The ncurses library seems to be the problem - I am not sure though.

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content on the screen. This happens in the text mode (non-GUI) and in all (xterm, konsole, etc) the terminal windows in the GUI as well.

Hi,

This may be caused by $LANG set to en_US.UTF-8 in RH 8.0, here a script I cobbled to fix it automatically on terminals.

------- lang_xterm.sh -------- # # $LANG modifications for xterms and VTs # # VTs TermType=`/sbin/consoletype` if [ "$TermType" == "vt" ]; then # console virtual terminal export LANG=en_US fi # xterms and others bin_term=`ps --no-headers $PPID | awk '{print $5}'` case $bin_term in gnome-terminal) # UTF Enabled ;; *) if [ "$TermType" == "pty" ]; then export LANG=en_US fi ;; esac unset TermType bin_term ------ lang_xterm.sh -------

Put this in /etc/profile.d/, and it will be executed everytime you start a bash shell. This fixes man page display etc. For certain apps you may need to do,

...]$ LANG=en_US command &

So you can just alias it or something.

Best regards, Rajesh