On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:53:21AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> 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
>

How did I get pulled into this? :)

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