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bin/42745: fortune doesn't handle extended characters very well



>Number:         42745
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       fortune doesn't handle extended characters very well
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 04 21:15:01 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Tim Larson
>Release:        5.0.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD roy.christtrek.org 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 01:39:11 
UTC 2009  
builds%b8.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
 i386
>Description:
Non-ASCII characters in fortune files are not handled very well when the 
terminal doesn't support them.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Use terminfo to determine support for extended chars, and use a Lynx-like 
mapping to 7-bit ASCII when not supported.



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