Re: ncurses cygwin

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:45:47PM -0500, jon wackley wrote:
> 
> I have written a small test program that uses box( stdscr, ACS_VLINE,
> ACS_HLINE ) and it works on aix, hp, linux, solaris.  I tried it on cygwin
> and I could not get the line draw characters to render correctly.  Tried a
> number of TERM settings to no avail.  Performed extensive search concerning
> this issue on Internet and www.deja.com and could not resolve the issue.
> Installed ncurses 5.3 and found no change in operation.
> 
> Could you please direct me as to how to address this issue?

Adding this to /etc/profile tends to fix the problem:

export CYGWIN=codepage:oem

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