Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:38:35 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, dickey@his.com, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminfo Message-ID: <20140225013835.GB7294@aerie.jexium-island.net> In-Reply-To: <530A296E.9090805@freebsd.org> References: <5304A0CC.5000505@FreeBSD.org> <CAJOYFBCMS4k7pyRk2YHZm81F6iP=SApZhbCm0MO4P-pvXbTCxQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140223115939.GB4084@aerie.jexium-island.net> <CAJOYFBB_K0ziNaTg=ThnCBN1EPU-b_H2kUxsc-MPYNEJHb3Y7w@mail.gmail.com> <530A296E.9090805@freebsd.org>
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--+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:01:34PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. my changes on Saturday were for a default install of FreeBSD 9 and 10 (the "Old syscons" pseudographics is, except for the 4 noted, quite alive). I took a look for documentation per se regarding teken, but found none. It would be nice if someone pointed where the documentation for the feature= is. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlML9BsACgkQcCNT4PfkjtuWOQCfYgFZN6PfM619PFz/4a+R+Krv aLAAn1gV/8ZOKTbeC/1uSjZOLOGORlyJ =V1VG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--
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