[BRLTTY] SSH from Cygwin

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Hi all,

This has been true forever I think and I don't really know how to describe 
it.

Throughout, my display is set to computer braille.

Brltty works properly when I run Linux (right now Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
5.1) and ssh to my Enterprise Linux 5.1 server and run, for example, 
system-config-securitylevel. This is, at a wild guess, an ncurses 
application that puts up several boxes on the screen. In this setup the 
boxes appear to be surrounded by question marks. The screen is properly 
formatted.

But when I ssh from Cygwin to the same server and run the same app, the 
boxes are surrounded by multi-cell characters. Dot combinations include but 
are not necessarily limited to:

2-8, 5, 1-3-5-7

2-8, 5, 1-4-5-6

2-8, 5, 1-3-5

2-8, 5, 6

and possibly others. This distorts the screen in various ways. For example, 
the top and bottom borders of the window won't fit on one line even though 
my screen is 132 characters wide. The cursor lands on the left parenthesis 
of a checkbox instead of the right parenthesis. Tabbing to the "enforcing" 
item in the SELinux choices causes the word to be rewritten a couple spaces 
to the left so it looks like

enforcing g

and other heartbreaking artifacts too numerous and traumatic to mention. 
<grin> I don't know whether the screen looks visually the same on the two 
systems which is one reason I've never mentioned this.

Does anybody have any idea what's going on and whether this can be fixed 
without breaking something else?

Thanks much,

-- 
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>

"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
     --Fred Allen