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Post #124,457 by SpiceWare 11/6/03 10:20:50 AM Reply	minor update saw Revolutions last night(it was great) so didn't spend much time on this before going to bed. The default terminal does not list very many encoding options. None of the alternatives mentioned here(CP437, CP850, etc) were listed. I tried launching xterm with the -en option and would get warnings along the line of "no CP850 encoding, defaulting to ISO8859-1". Also tried the MonoDisplay font and got the same display results as the other fonts I'd selected. Thinking back, I've had this same issue(with a CLI program) on an older Red Hat release and was able to get it working. As such, I suspect the issue is related to the missing encoding options. Due to other commitments I won't be able to do anything else with this until Sunday. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #124,733 by jake123 11/8/03 10:41:01 AM Reply	It won't be called that in my (admittedly limited) experience, at least. Look for IBM* perhaps? The encodings I'm talking about were all based on "standards" set by IBM back in the '70s and '80s. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #124,747 by deSitter 11/8/03 3:44:48 PM Reply	right - look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings ibm-cp437.enc.gz etc. Unfortunately that doesn't work :/ The "10x20" xterm console font seems to understand linedraw characters without further muckage. So xterm -fn 10x20 Also simply appending -u8 (make the xterm understand Unicode-8) seems to work with any font having linedraw characters - e.g. Andale Mono, Lucida Console, Courier New..so use the "-fa" option for a TT font and do xterm -fa "Andale Mono" -fs 12 -u8 -fs is font size in points, of course. You need X > 4.2 to get an xterm that understands Xft. A modern Red Hat probably has it. As for console fonts - I use the Neomagic framebuffer device on my laptop and have the sun12x22 console font compiled into the fbcon module. This has line draw capability under ISO-8859-1 without munging anything. The standard VGA font should as well. -drl

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