[lug] Curses mode screens gone FUBAR

[Hugh Brown]

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 13:49, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I have a text-based system running RH 9.0 and when I tried to run 
> netconfig the curses mode screen came up in a nearly unreadable and 
> un-navigable state. I could see most of the dialogs, but there were many 
> extraneous characters displayed around the screen and either the Tab key 
> didn't work or the display wasn't updating, so I couldn't control the 
> actions. Had to kill the process and log out.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can fix this?
> 
> TIA,
> - Bill Thoen
> 

I believe this is a problem with the system font.  The release notes for
redhat 9 said that the switch to utf-8 and the new system font made a
number of man pages go weird.

Since I don't need foreign language support, I changed the
/etc/sysconfig/i18n file to have the following contents:

LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"

and then rebooted so that the changes would take affect.

HTH,

Hugh