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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:01:34 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, dickey@his.com
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: terminfo
Message-ID:  <530A296E.9090805@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJOYFBB_K0ziNaTg=ThnCBN1EPU-b_H2kUxsc-MPYNEJHb3Y7w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 23.02.2014 17:49, Ed Schouten wrote:
> This terminfo entry is incorrect. It will make ACS work on a standard
> setup where the user has the BIOS CP437 font loaded, but will break
> horribly if a user uses a different character set, like ISO-8859-1.
> 
> There is a reason why syscons displays ASCII characters for ACS box
> drawing, namely that there is no guarantee that the actual font loaded
> into the graphics card has any ACS characters to begin with.

Old syscons was able to displays pseudographics, and several cons25-like
termcap entries exists to correspond ACS for each console font. It is
your emulation which always displays ASCII now, which is step backward.

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