On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 04:52:46PM GMT, Edd Barrett wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 09:56:07PM +0100, Stefan Hagen wrote:
>> I've updated gurk-rs on openbsd-wip to version 0.4.3. It seems to start
>> more reliable now. I could exchange a few messages. Once a message got
>> deleted, further messages could not be sent from gurk.
>
>I just tried this and it worked until someone sent me a message, then it
>dropped me back to the shall and spammed the screen with weird characters.
>
>Such a shame, I could really use a client like this.
>
>-- 
>Best Regards
>Edd Barrett
>
>https://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
>

I just tried this and wasn't able to link to my phone.

I had to patch the Makefile slightly to get it to build; see [0].

I wasn't able to link to my phone because the QR code is not displayed 
in a usable way.  Here are the first three lines of what I assume is 
supposed to be a QR code.

	$ gurk
	Linking new device with device name: gurk@angel
						     
	   ▄▄▄▄▄    ▄▄ ▄ ▄   ▄   ▄▄ ▄ ▄      ▄▄▄▄▄   
		    ▄  ▄  ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄     ▄          
	    ▄▄▄    ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄  ▄▄▄▄  ▄▄ ▄▄   ▄▄▄  

The whole thing seems to be made out of spaces and U+2584 characters. 
The Signal app does not recognize it as a QR code. Has anyone else 
encountered this behaviour?

Just in case, I tried setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8, and then LANG=C, 
and then instead LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, but none of those helped.

-- 
James

[0] https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/pull/175