[COLUG] UTF-8 Goobers-up Screen

[Ethan Dicks]

On 6/12/07, Aaron Howard <archanoid at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not a screen user myself so I don't know if this relates, but I had some
> bizarre problems with the Linux console, ncurses, line drawing characters and
> UTF-8.  (Search COLUG list for the thread.)

Was this the thread where "reset" works for most folks?

> I solved my issue by entering this command:
>
> echo -ne "\033c"
>
> That is a VT100 RIS ("R"eset to "I"nitial "S"tate) command.  Fixes some quirks
> w/ Linux console handling.

Yep.

>  According to the ncurses FAQ, Linux' console is "only nominally VT-100 compatible."

Entirely too true... I discovered how "nominal" when I tried to run
real Emacs (36-bit Emacs, not new-fangled Gnu Emacs ;-) from a window
on a Linux box... utter failure.  I had to resort to hanging a dumb
terminal off the serial port and firing up a getty... that worked
perfectly.

-ethan