Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: awesome-dave1@××××.com
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] screen rewrites in the cygwin terminal
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:43:29
Message-Id: 20040305.123943.1104.2.awesome-dave1@juno.com
1 Hi,
2 This is quite interesting. Not sure about ncurses, but one thing that
3 drives screen readers crazy is utf-8 formatting. This problem occurred in
4 rh8 and up since they implemented it, man pages, ftp clients, everything
5 would redraw the screen. If you have an i18n file check for the lang
6 variable, ensure it doesn't have a utf-8 in it.
7 Question, how did you do your original gentoo install? I'm trying to get
8 it on a machine.
9 Thanks.
10 Dave.
11
12 On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:07:07 -0600 "William Hubbs" <w.hubbs@×××××××.net>
13 writes:
14 > Hi all,
15 >
16 > When I access my gentoo linux box remotely, I use the open ssh for
17 > windows package from http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows, which is
18 > basically the cygwin ssh client.
19 >
20 > Ever since I upgraded to the ncurses 5.4 series a few days ago, I
21 > have noticed that the screen gets rewritten every time I exit mutt,
22 > man, less and lynx to name a few programs. The affect of this is
23 > that the whole screen gets re-read by my screen reader.
24 >
25 > I have been able to isolate this to the cygwin terminfo entry. It
26 > seems that something in the capabilities of the cygwin terminal has
27 > changed in the newest ncurses that causes this to happen. Can
28 > someone assist me further in figuring out what changed and how to
29 > change it back?
30 >
31 > Thanks,
32 >
33 > William
34 >
35 >
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39 >
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Re: [gentoo-accessibility] screen rewrites in the cygwin terminal William Hubbs <w.hubbs@×××××××.net>