RE: redhat 8.0, make menuconfig, termino...

[Cameron, Steve]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:17:05PM -0600, Cameron, Steve wrote:
> > 
> > I noticed on redhat 8.0, trying to compile the linux 
> > kernel, make menuconfig using "TERM=linux" on the vga
> > console gets weird results (menus aren't drawn correctly.)
> 
> Redhat 8.0 sets UTF-8 locale by default.  That doesn't work 
> for the normal ncurses library.  ncurses 5.3 can be compiled with 
> wide-character support to accommodate this.
[...]
Yeah, I noticed that too.  So I tried

export LANG=C
make menuconfig

but it didn't help.  If the locale were the problem,
wouldn't that have helped?  Maybe the locale is only
one of the problems.

I looked through my environment (output of "env")
but didn't see anything else that looked like it 
related to locale.  Thanks for the reply.

-- steve