Re: graphic characters in console

Luca Ferrari wrote:

> I've got a problem displaying those graphics characters that you can find (for 
> example) in ncurses based programs (I mean lines, angles, etc.). On my red 
> hat 6.2 system they are displayed fine (I mean that if I cat a file which 
> contains those character I can see them weel), but on my suse 8.2 they are 
> not. In fact they are displayed as strange alphabetic characters. I don't 
> know what's the setting to display rightly those characters, anyone can help 
> me?

You have to select a suitable console font with e.g. setfont or
consolechars. The default8x9 and default8x16 fonts usually have the
line graphics characters, while those beginning with "iso" correspond
to the various ISO-8859 encodings (e.g. iso01-* all use ISO-8859-1).

See the documentation for with the "console-tools" package for more
information.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements <at> virgin.net>
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