Re: Bash Issues

Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:33:50 -0700


Alan,

Which alternate charater set supports standard 256 ASCII codes just like
a PC, and is mappable to most of the planets terminals? The ACS_*
symbols output strange characters in the Latin1 Char set when selected.
I am headed towards the linux box to look at ncurses ALTCHARSET.

Please Advise.

Jeff

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Pardon my ignorance of unix lingo Alan, but what does?
>
> The terminal settings, the font you have loaded (we tend to stick to standards
> so we use UTF8 and/or ISO for most things rather than PC standards).
>
> ncurses knows about using A_ALTCHARSET for alternate character sets

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