[NTLUG:Discuss] terminfo question

[Jack Snodgrass]

Not sure what it is either.... if everyone in the world 
would read/write/speak English and use the good old 
7-bit ascii character set ( A-Z, a-z, etc ) we wouldn't
have these problems. ;) 

jack


On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 15:15, Carl Haddick wrote:
> Thanks - the i18n changes did the trick.
> 
> As to why it did the trick, I guess that's something for me to explore!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Carl
> 
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:43:49AM -0600, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 21:21, Chris Cox wrote:
> > > Carl Haddick wrote:
> > > > I've always been unclear what applications termcap affects, and what
> > > > applications terminfo affects in Linux, and I have a problem I'd like to
> > > > address.
> > > > 
> > > > My last few Linux installations have been RH 8, and on both SVGA and
> > > > laptop displays the colored dashes in man pages aren't visible in X.
> 
> > > time.  Try the following and see:
> > > 
> > > $ LANG=C man <your-favorite-command>
> > > 
> > 
> > I changed my /etc/sysconfig/i18n file to be:
> > LANG="en_US"
> > SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
> > SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
> > and that fixed some 'font' issues. I did this to get