Some apps in 'screen' window aren't formatted correctly

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a new `screen` window
2. Launch offending program (such as "aptitude" interface)
3. Notice the screen gets messed up as more advanced formatting is used.
This doesn't happen outside of `screen`.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Programs are formatted fine and are completely usable when not running
within a `screen` window. Creating a `screen` window and running the same
program, the formatting is messed up and sometimes impossible to read.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
r106, happens on all prior versions I've used as well.

Please provide any additional information below.
I typically am seeing this on programs with a full screen text interface
that uses special characters to create text boxes, colors, etc. The main
culprit for me is BackupEdge backup software (edgemenu) on Red Hat, but
another more common example would be the `aptitude` interface on Ubuntu.

Screenshots are attached.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dgurak on 3 Nov 2008 at 5:40

Attachments:

• screen-flaw.jpg

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What is your LANG setting inside and outside of screen? The same? We don't 
currently
support UTF-8's multibyte characters.

Did you start your screen session from a console with UTF-8 as the encoding?

Original comment by kenny@the-b.org on 3 Nov 2008 at 12:08

[GoogleCodeExporter]

That did it! It was defaulted to "en_US.UTF-8". I tried "en_US" and "C", both of
which worked great from the console and the screen session. Learned something 
new,
thanks! You can close this ticket.

Original comment by dgurak on 3 Nov 2008 at 3:10

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Okay, I'm closing this as a duplicate of Issue 42.

Original comment by kenny@the-b.org on 3 Nov 2008 at 3:54

• Changed state: Duplicate