Should look the way ACS_ULCORNER, ACS_URCORNER, etc. look on curses.
Jeff
"Mark H. Wood" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > Your gonna loave how this stuff looks on an ansi terminal.
>
> I keep wondering what it's going to look like on a SPARC, AlphaStation,
> Macintosh, and suchlike.
>
> > Jeff
> >
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > ASCII is 7bit. I think you mean the PC character set non standard...
> > > I think ALTCHARSET gets you the PC characters (cp437 is it ?)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > I think this is where the communication breakdown occurred, our use of
> > the "ASCII" term. In PC lingo (and in all PC based literature since
> > about 1986 on the subject), ASCII is assumed to be the PC character set
> > for those of us from the "DOS/Windows world". To unix folks, "ASCII"
> > means something different -- a richer and more specific definition as to
> > what this refers to (which is why I and some unix folks seem to talk
> > past each other on this topic).
>
> That does make some sense. Trouble is, what "ASCII" is is not a matter of
> opinion; it's a USA national standard. Does that help?
>
> BTW somebody brought up "VT100 escape sequences". One might not know it
> from looking at some emulators' buggy implementations, but this is also
> not open to interpretation; there should be a DEC-STD-??? document that
> defines it, and it's a subset of another ANS X3.something.
>
> Let's be careful out there.
>
> --
> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
> Please, no more software products offering a "richer experience"! I have
> indigestion of the brain already. Give me a more ascetic experience.
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