tmux shows strange characters (garbage) at startup when using yaft in linux console

[stef204]

I have been using yaft for years, with tmux on distro Arch.

Recent upgrade from tmux 3.3 to 3.4 has broken something: at every start of tmux I get weird characters (garbage) printing on screen when using yaft in linux console (no X11.)

I am trying to identify which of the changes is causing this so I can go back to updated tmux version 3.4 yet get rid of this weird character printing on screen issue. (I've downgraded back 3.3 for now.)

(Note: I tried a lot of different things [utf8, mouse, escape time, etc.] in tmux.conf file but none of it has an impact.)

This does not happen if I use tmux 3.4 in linux console without yaft -- so there is some breakage or changes introduced on the 3.3 to 3.4 upgrade here which yaft doesn't like.

It may be related to utf8 but can't figure it out. Maybe the deletion of the 0002-ncurses.patch?
Would appreciate some feedback if you can id or help me id the change breaking the combo yaft+tmux as described above.