Package: ncurses-base
Version: 5.9-5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Just did a upgrade for my Sid box, and I found ncurses-base 5.9-5 does not
behave as that of version 5.9-4, i.e. garbled frame boundary when running
dialog with LC_ALL=C.
How to reproduce:
1. Login Debian Sid console (e.g. tty1) as a normal user, and this problem only
occurs on console, not remote shell.
2. cd /usr/share/doc/dialog/examples
3. LC_ALL=C ./msgbox
Then you can see the garbled frame boundary. As shown in the attached png file.
The dialog version is 1.1-20120215-1. This issue also occurs when running
whiptail (0.52.14-8) with the following command:
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LC_ALL=C whiptail --title "MESSAGE BOX" --clear "$@" \
--msgbox "Hi, this is a simple message box. You can use this to \
display any message you like. The box will remain until \
you press the ENTER key." 10 41
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If I downgrade ncurses-base to 5.9-4, rerun the above steps, no such issue.
BTW, it's OK when running with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 and zh_TW.UTF-8, so this
issue only happens for LC_ALL=C.
Could you please fix this?
Thanks.Steven. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- no debconf information
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