Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > Scott Cheloha wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 06:23:32PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > snake and worm draw boxes, but they can be prettier by using the default > > > style, which will use line drawing instead of ugly -*| characters. > > > > > > should do the right thing on a vt100, but only tested in xterm. > > > > It looks much prettier in an xterm but in the system console I'm > > getting question marks. Is that a limitation of the terminal or > > am I missing the glyphs? Dunno if this is the expected behavior > > but it is uglier than what we had before. > > ah, that's disappointing. my understanding is it should revert to ascii, but > there seems to be a flaw, either in curses or my understanding. curses!
If I recall, curses needs a little bit more initialization if you want it to do the right thing this trap was set because we don't have a curses maintainer, but look now we do, since it is mostly the games who need this, maybe mlarkin can help you
