Re: Supporting Macintosh FinderInfo/Resource Fork in Linux NWFS 2.0
Horst von Brand (vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:18:56 -0300
"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said:
> I'm using the ACS_* characters in ncurses. These map to +=-, etc. on
> terminals that don't have support for the box characters (an Alan Cox
> suggestion -- excellent one at that). Folks were right about the 8 bit
> stuff, it's a char set mapping problem, and the console is putting out
> the **wrong** 8 bit characters for line drawing. It's a shame that
> ncurses is dumb and doesn't detect this and switch to cp_437 during
> initscr().
You got me there. How is ncurses supposed to find out what (if anything)
appears on screen when it outputs <random byte>?
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