Re: No frames or Umlaute with jed :(

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Jochen Kmietsch <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have a strange problem.  I used to run jed on my SuSE 7.1 laptop on the
>linux console, and things were fine.  Now I am back home and recompiled
>the RPMs on my SuSE 7.3 box and now jed is missing the menu frames and all
>8bit-characters like German Umlaute on the console.  In an xterm the menu
>frames are there, but still no Umlaute.  7.1 has Slang 1.4.2 while 7.3 has
>1.4.4.  Umlaute work fine on the console otherwise.
>Has anybody else experienced problems like this?  I can type Umlaute, I
>just don't see them in jed.  Xjed does fine, but I am console guy...
>Jed version is 0.99.16

Did you recompile slang as well?  Linux distributions such as SuSE
have been known to distribute hacked versions of slang causing
problems such as what you are reporting.  You should grab the source
code from ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/v1.4 and recompile it.

Good luck,
--John

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