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Major Amfora bugs? Here is why, and a fix

~atking

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So a while ago my copy of Amfora (1.9.2 win64) really bugged out. The major issues were:

Right scrollbar would fail to show gradient, or display ?'s
Random letters would latch themselves onto the screen and quickly ruin text
Popups would misalign and sometimes partially fail to display
Local file navigation would completely fail

If you've got these problems, you've set the code page to something other than the regular 437, like I had when temporarily switching system locales. Following that is a fix I made for Windows versions. Mac/Linux/the BSDs should be similar but I'm not sure how CHCP/locales work on there.

.bat file, of course.

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@echo off
chcp 437
:: chcp 437 for classic ANSI (gemini use)
:: chcp 65001 for UTF+8 (browser use)
amfora_1.9.2_windows_64-bit.exe
:: change above to fit with amfora filename

So now just modify as intended, stick that into the same directory as Amfora and run the Batch file from now on.

Hope this helps to anyone with a bugged out Amfora client like I had. I also suggest anyone here with a GitHub to file this as a bug, maybe prepend this CHCP command to the startup.

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~tatterdemalion wrote:

This probably doesn't affect Unix clients, and it's probably an upstream bug in whatever TUI library Amfora uses, for which Windows support is probably an afterthought.