Re: missing line drawing in latest freebsd port

["Viktor Åtujber" <theultramage gmail com>]

Hello again. Has there been any progress with identifying the cause of
this issue and how to resolve it?
Both me (using PuTTY) and a friend (using ) only see blank spaces
where line drawing chars are supposed to be. This affects panels,
dropdown menus and popup boxes. Mode -a only covers the panels and
doesn't look as good as the original. I tried googling for an answer
but the few hits didn't help solve the problem.


On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Viktor Åtujber <theultramage gmail com> wrote:
> Greetings. I come with an issue that has appeared circa 4 weeks ago,
> when the freebsd ports 'mc' makefile was extended with UTF-8 support.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/mc/Makefile.diff?r1=1.113;r2=1.114;f=h
>
> This modified the mc dependencies, which now require libslang2. But
> when using this library, the lines around the navigation panels no
> longer appear, instead there are only blank spaces. This makes mc
> harder to use.
>
> I asked some bsd people about this, and got a suggestion to remove the
> dependency and instead use the previous libslang version. This seems
> to work, but the âcharacter is not displayed properly. Also this
> change might produce undefined behavior since it's untested.
>
> Therefore I'd like to ask for advice from the professionals here.