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Post #124,733
by jake123
11/8/03 10:41:01 AM
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New 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.
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Post #124,747
by deSitter
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11/8/03 3:44:48 PM
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New 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
     DOS style text graphics in a terminal window? - (SpiceWare) - (16) - Nov. 5, 2003, 10:56:09 AM EST
         It's an endless problem. - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Nov. 5, 2003, 11:46:01 AM EST
             PuTTY on Windows - (pwhysall) - (2) - Nov. 5, 2003, 11:53:52 AM EST
                 Yeah, the trouble is . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Nov. 5, 2003, 03:58:01 PM EST
                     It's the very model of any modern major emulator! -NT - (folkert) - Nov. 5, 2003, 04:58:16 PM EST
         Re: DOS style text graphics in a terminal window? - (deSitter) - Nov. 5, 2003, 11:59:27 AM EST
         What you need then is an ANSI font file with IBM PC graphics - (orion) - Nov. 5, 2003, 02:57:47 PM EST
         I've seen exactly that - (jake123) - Nov. 5, 2003, 06:34:47 PM EST
         It's the font, stupid. - (kmself) - Nov. 5, 2003, 09:40:03 PM EST
         minor update - (SpiceWare) - (2) - Nov. 6, 2003, 10:20:50 AM EST
             It won't be called that - (jake123) - (1) - Nov. 8, 2003, 10:41:01 AM EST
                 right - look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings - (deSitter) - Nov. 8, 2003, 03:44:48 PM EST
         While fixing another issue.. - (deSitter) - Nov. 8, 2003, 06:19:11 AM EST
         minor update 2 - (SpiceWare) - Nov. 11, 2003, 05:11:04 PM EST
         New Sourceforge project you should look at Gtermix - (orion) - (1) - Dec. 3, 2003, 02:08:57 PM EST
             Thanx! -NT - (SpiceWare) - Dec. 3, 2003, 05:50:55 PM EST
         interesting update - (SpiceWare) - Dec. 3, 2003, 05:51:43 PM EST

And if I'm just going for effect, I might as well wear a tie. And pants.
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