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Re: lynx-dev Display problem with Cygwin port: lynx or ncurses problem?


From: Thomas E. Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Display problem with Cygwin port: lynx or ncurses problem?
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:30:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > > I noted that the box drawing characters on the cygwin port don't seem
> > > to be correct, at least in popup boxes on the option page. Rather
> > ...
> > otoh, if I'm misinterpreting the comment about "&Auml" - that you're
> > describing an 8-bit character rather than a 7-bit approximation, the
> > fix for that is to tell cygwin to use the OEM character set.  In my
> > /etc/profile, I have
> >     export CYGWIN=codepage:oem
>
> Yes, I was describing the 8-bit character. Setting "CYGWIN=codepage:oem"
> fixed the problem for me. This seems to work when the value is put into
> the environment when running the binary under command.com also.

no problem.

>
> Thanks.
>                    Doug
>
>

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