Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <w.hubbs@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] screen rewrites in the cygwin terminal
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:52:09
Message-Id: 20040305175207.GA5003@linux1.attbi.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] screen rewrites in the cygwin terminal by awesome-dave1@juno.com
1 Hi Dave,
2
3 AS far as I can tell, there is no utf-8 setting anywhere.
4
5 The other thing I did was change the value of the TERM environment variable from the shell, and when I set it to vt100 all of the redrawing stopped.
6
7 William
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9 On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:39:42PM -0500, awesome-dave1@××××.com wrote:
10 > Hi,
11 > This is quite interesting. Not sure about ncurses, but one thing that
12 > drives screen readers crazy is utf-8 formatting. This problem occurred in
13 > rh8 and up since they implemented it, man pages, ftp clients, everything
14 > would redraw the screen. If you have an i18n file check for the lang
15 > variable, ensure it doesn't have a utf-8 in it.
16 > Question, how did you do your original gentoo install? I'm trying to get
17 > it on a machine.
18 > Thanks.
19 > Dave.
20 >
21 > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:07:07 -0600 "William Hubbs" <w.hubbs@×××××××.net>
22 > writes:
23 > > Hi all,
24 > >
25 > > When I access my gentoo linux box remotely, I use the open ssh for
26 > > windows package from http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows, which is
27 > > basically the cygwin ssh client.
28 > >
29 > > Ever since I upgraded to the ncurses 5.4 series a few days ago, I
30 > > have noticed that the screen gets rewritten every time I exit mutt,
31 > > man, less and lynx to name a few programs. The affect of this is
32 > > that the whole screen gets re-read by my screen reader.
33 > >
34 > > I have been able to isolate this to the cygwin terminfo entry. It
35 > > seems that something in the capabilities of the cygwin terminal has
36 > > changed in the newest ncurses that causes this to happen. Can
37 > > someone assist me further in figuring out what changed and how to
38 > > change it back?
39 > >
40 > > Thanks,
41 > >
42 > > William
43 > >
44 > >
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