[Mageia-dev] Odd Window framing in curses part of install

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
Tue Mar 13 20:47:48 CET 2012


On 03/13/2012 02:40 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
> Just a small thing, but the curses windows which appear at the start 
> of isolinux prompting for the type of install, server address and so 
> forth have suddenly had their borders filled with characters - "U" at 
> the left corner, "A" along the top, and an upside-down question mark 
> at the right corner.
>
> I assume that curses is using ASCII extended graphics characters to 
> draw the perimeter of the windows, but that the install itself is 
> using UTF-8 or some other character set which doesn't have them.
>
My bad.  This is bug 4894.  I just didn't guess it from the title.


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