Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

Am 09.05.2020 um 08:45 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> Am 09.05.2020 um 08:32 schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin:
>> Am 08.05.2020 um 22:14 schrieb briand@pounceofcats.com:
>>> On Fri, 8 May 2020 20:41:55 +0200
>>> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 07.05.2020 um 17:18 schrieb briand@pounceofcats.com:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Doesn't matter what terminal i'm using, I'm having a problem with 
>>>>> the way graphic characters print.
>>>>> Julia uses unicode output, and will generate output that should 
>>>>> look like this:
>>>>>    julia> x=DataFrame([(1,2,3), (4,5,6)])
>>>>> 2×3 DataFrame
>>>>> │ Row │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │
>>>>> │     │ Int64 │ Int64 │ Int64 │
>>>>> ├─────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
>>>>> │ 1   │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │
>>>>> │ 2   │ 4     │ 5     │ 6     │
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it works fine for me with
>>>> $ uname -svr
>>>> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.1.4(0.340/5/3) 2020-02-19 08:49
>>>>
>>>> both on CMD console and Mintty
>>>> without need to disable pcon
>>>>
>>>> julia> using DataFrames
>>>>
>>>> julia> x=DataFrame([(1,2,3), (4,5,6)])
>>>> 2×3 DataFrame
>>>> │ Row │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │
>>>> │     │ Int64 │ Int64 │ Int64 │
>>>> ├─────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
>>>> │ 1   │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │ │ 2   │ 4     │ 5     │ 6 │
>>>>
>>>> what type of locale are you using ?
>>>> $ echo $LANG
>>>> en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> yes, that's the locale
>>>
>>
>> so it is not the DLL alone and it is not the locale
>> that is causing the problem you see.
>>
>> Please provide the cygcheck.out as attachment
>> https://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
>> Which version of Julia are you running ?
>> How are you running Julia?
>> Do you have any custom user setup in Julia?
>> I just installed it and only installed the DataFrames package.
> Julia had a patch to enable UTF-8 output via Windows output functions in 
> previous cygwin versions.
> I remember the details only vaguely right now, but it may be necessary 
> to remove that patch for cygwin from 3.1.0, or it might cause some kind 
> of double transformation.
> Thomas
> -- 

there is a Cygwin porting ?
I installed the last windows 64 binary
Current stable release: v1.4.1 (April 14, 2020)

and it works for me, I do not see the issue reported by Brian

Marco