Re: Slackware's dialog

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:38:27 -0800
x y <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/11/2014 09:55 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Gil André wrote:
> >
> >>> But, if you run the same command as a user, the colors break on
> >>> the bottom and right sides of the box.
> >
> >   Not true here.
> >
> >> I have to say I have used dialog many many times, and I have never
> >> seen the behaviour you are mentioning…
> >
> >   Interesting. I thought those dialog boxes came from ncurses
> > scripts; perhaps, they alao are.
> >
> > Thanks, Gil,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> Heh, all terminal programs are doing it. A Ctrl-Alt-F3 and login
> gives me text instead of lines around the box.
> 
> I'm running Xfce on Nvidia's proprietary drivers. But the command
> works under root, just not for the user account.
> 
> It's got to be a setting somewhere. I'll keep digging.


This can happen if there's a UTF8 mismatch, e.g. if I'm connected
to a remote system with LANG=en_US while my client session has 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8, that will happen here.

-RW

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