elinks and links severely mess up the terminal about tty.js HOT 3 CLOSED

Could you show me a screenshot? Elinks works fine for me. tty.js tries to use xterm-256color by default if the terminfo exists. If you're not used to using xterm-256color, you'll notice that elinks tries to use different colors than if you were just using xterm. Maybe that is what you're seeing?

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See: http://risacher.org/ref/ttyjs-elinks-screenshot.jpg

tty.js codebase is from git about a month ago. Server is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. TERM=xterm

[EDIT: I just pulled to current from github - still see the same behaviour]

in my .tty.js/config.js, I have "shell": "/home/magnus/bin/ssh-localhost",

ssh-localhost, in turn, contains:

#!/usr/bin/perl                                                                                                                                 
print "Login: ";                                                                                                                                
my $username = <STDIN>;                                                                                                                         
chomp $username;                                                                                                                                
$username =~ s/[^a-z]//g;                                                                                                                       
exec ("/usr/bin/ssh $username\@localhost");

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Definitely the oddest thing I've seen all day. Okay, I reproduced it with elinks version 0.12, but not version 0.13. It seems to be a charset problem. Elinks is trying to swap out of the DEC line drawing charset, but it can't. I'm guessing it might be using some kind of shift-in shift-out stuff, which isn't implemented in tty.js. It will take me a little bit to research it some more. It should be a simple fix.

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