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Generic Linux on Pi things
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LinuxOnPiNotes.txt
Using Putty or Kitty and getting lines to draw.
The problem is that PuTTY in UTF-8 mode ignores1 VT100 "Alternate character set" commands, and ncurses attempts to use the "graphical" character set for drawing the GUI. (The box drawing characters are in the same positions as klmqx would normally be.)
export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1
to your environment, it should fix the problem by telling ncurses to always use Unicode box drawing characters when a UTF-8 locale is selected.
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