Hi again On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:29:16 +0100 > From: Leonard den Ottolander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: MC <mc@gnome.org> > Subject: Re: Problems with bold colour display in text mode > > Hello Jim, > > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 22:31 +0200, Jim Holland wrote: > > Lack of bold colours is a problem that I have come across with a number of > > recent Linux distributions, including RHEL clones, Fedora Core 4, etc. > > Please compare > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71958 . See if the > solutions proposed in comments #5 and #6 solve your problem. While the solutions mentioned do solve that particular problem on the local machine, there is also the related problem reported in the above: * Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by default. This has been known to cause various issues: 7 Line drawing characters in applications such as make menuconfig do not appear correctly in certain locales. This problem does not appear when working on a local machine that is using the recommended frame buffer solution, it does show up when using ssh to connect from a machine running later versions of Red Hat/derivatives to a remote machine using an older version of Red Hat. Specifically, with Midnight Commander, the display on the remote machine gets seriously distorted because it does not refresh correctly. This makes it completely unusable. Attempts to fix it with "setfont" or "consolechars" do not make any difference. The only option I could find quickly was to run Midnight Commander with the "-a" option to disable line drawing characters. That looks a little crude, but does give a usable display. I must say that this is making me think of trying other distributions such as Debian that are apparently free of this issue. How can Red Hat effectively abandon support for text-based applications like this? Regards Jim Holland System Administrator MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
