> Reverting this patch fixes the problem for me. However it was a bugfix (which obscured other bugs). The issue is whether the line-drawing character set should be selected on startup. Normally applications do this the first time line-drawing is performed. I seem to recall (unrelated to this fix) seeing a comment about this problem on NetBSD, that it was a problem with the termcap entry itself (rather than screen, per se, which does odd things occasionally when the termcap doesn't match its expectations).
It's possible that the termcap file which I maintain for xterm doesn't present this problem (see the tarball on my webpage). I might be able to setup some of my own testing to investigate this as well. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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