Re: [PLUG] Line drawing characters limitation in screen?`

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:27:51AM -0400, Ottey, Daniel William wrote:
> I often use "screen" in Linux to help keep my ssh sessions continuous
> (even when my putty window closes, for example).  But one of the
> annoyances I've found is that screen tends to mess up line drawing
> characters.  For example:
> 
> Without "screen"
> http://pics.livejournal.com/dottey/pic/000ghfch
> 
> With screen:
> http://pics.livejournal.com/dottey/pic/000ggaps
> 
> Does anyone know what I might be able to set within screen to make the
> characters display properly?  Or is this just some weird limitation of
> the screen program?

There's a chance you might be using an old termcap and/or an old
version of screen.  This is discussed in the screen faq at
http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.html, in
the section "I can't get character line graphics (from the alternate
character set) under screen".

Walt

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