Looks like VGA console doesn't support the characters wscons tries to
use for ACS, at least not with an ISO font encoding and I can't see if
it's possible to change it to an IBM font.

I suspect nuking acsc with terminal-overrides is the best you're going
to be able to do.


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:11:47AM +0200, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote:
> On Wed 14/05, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to configure tmux on OBSD 5.5 in console (no X11).
> > My laptop is a Thinkpad R61 equipped with an Intel GM965 video card, so
> > I'm in KMS mode, if that matters.
> > 
> > The problem is that when I split a windows in two or more panes, the
> > separators are "????????" characters, both horizontally and vertically
> > (instead of "|" and "-").
> > 
> > Strangely enough, if I enable UTF-8 (which is, to my best
> > understanding, not supported in console), the separators change to
> > "????????????????", so for sure there is an impact of the encoding...
> > 
> > It's worth noting that in Xterm all works as expected.
> > 
> 
> After further investigation and searching, this seems to be related
> to some kind of mismatch between OBSD console and the terminfo
> database entry being used by tmux. Maybe the terminfo db indicates that
> ACS is available, but wsconsole is not actually respecting the specified
> control sequences?
> 
> Un-setting the ACS features, tmux is forced to fall back to ASCII line
> drawing, and the problem disappears:
> 
> ~/.tmux.conf
> set-option -g terminal-overrides ',*vt*:enacs@:smacs@:rmacs@:acsc@'
> 
> In any case, UTF-8 encoding must be switched off.
> 
> I'm not an expert, so I don't think I can do more than this... I really
> hope in your comments.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
> [mailto:just22....@gmail.com]
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