Subj : ncurses
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Sep 11 2017 01:55:20

Hey Nicholas!

 NB> Golded, however, even while ncurses was changing those ANSI line
 NB> drawings to q, x, and a couple other letters, now it's way worse,
 NB> as in half the screen missing at times.

Ah yes!  Now I remember.  Also noticed that sometimes the vga colours (color) 
weren't quite right for whatever reason.  I still see that in a few apps that 
require ncurses but still use straight ascii characters such as msged.  I'll 
have a looksee soon and see if that rears it's ugly head.

 NB> My BBS software's configuration program also uses ncurses, and
 NB> looks pretty bad there too.

Same thing with older kernel source's 'menuconfig' app except the kernel people 
were on top of that issue quite quickly and had a fix for it.  I am betting 
whatever fix they applied to that function might be a fix for your issue(s).  
The golded one is a tad more involved since they don't allow for WIDEC which is 
now the default in ncurses.  In 5.9 the distributions were providing both the 
WIDEC (eg libncursesw and libncurses) whereas now I only see libncursesw.  Mind 
you the version I have onboard was built by nyself and I never bothered with 
non-WIDEC and haven't for ages now.

Life is good,
Maurice

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