Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

[Peter Gordon]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc
> and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed
> in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole.  Rectangular frames
> are absent, columns don't line up, the wrong character disappears when I hit
> backspace, and so on, to the point of making the applications unusable.

I've had that issues with the kernel configuration too at times. What
are your locale settings? (LC_ALL and LANG)

If you're using UTF-8, are you sure that you have UNICODE="yes" in your
/etc/rc.conf?

Hope this helps.

--Peter