From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 22:25:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12751 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12722; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03024; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:25:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd002994; Wed Feb 4 23:25:04 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07124; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:25:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802050625.XAA07124@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: character-set information for terminals. To: j_mini@efn.org Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:25:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980204123632.41455@micron.mini.net> from "Jonathan Mini" at Feb 4, 98 12:36:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" > Does anybody know how you determine what font/character-set a given TTY is > using? AFAICT, it is contained in the termcap database, but on examination, > I can't find any immediatly obvious way to determining this. It's in the user's environment with the "TERM" environment variable; it's the variable that start with "LC_" and "LOCALE"... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.