sysutils/screen and strange characters

[CyberCr33p]

After upgrading screen to latest version:

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I see strange characters when I type screen

Also if I press backspace and then enter I get this:

Can someone confirm it?

 

[Alexander88207]

Can someone confirm it?

Hello,

i cant confirm that. Tested on X11 and console. Maybe that issue could be releated to your fonts?

 

[CyberCr33p]

Do you use the latest screen version from ports?

 

[Alexander88207]

Do you use the latest screen version from ports?

Yes. 4.8.0_1

 

[CyberCr33p]

Can you run env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 screen and see if you can see the issue?

 

[Alexander88207]

Ahhh, now i have this issue now too. The first lines are ok but then its broken.

 

[memreflect]

Looks like it was reverted and subsequently corrected. If you're not updating ports from SVN/Git and building them yourself, you'll need to wait a few days to receive the fixes, or just downgrade the package/port to a working version.

By the way, I use the quarterly branch and built sysutils/screen out of curiosity. What you're seeing are not strange characters; not in the sense that they're mysterious or random at least. Some of the characters are simply missing:

G U S r e   e s o   . 8 0   G U   5 F b 2
GNU Screen version 4.08.00 (GNU) 05-Feb-20

C p r g t ( ) 2 1 - 0 0 A e a d r N u o , A a e s   l w n k
Copyright (c) 201?-2020 Alexander Naumov, Amadeusz Slawinski