Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:36:55 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: j_mini@efn.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: character-set information for terminals. Message-ID: <19980204223655.54686@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <199802050625.XAA07124@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 06:25:01AM %2B0000 References: <19980204123632.41455@micron.mini.net> <199802050625.XAA07124@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> stands accused of saying: > > 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-). Hmmm... hate to say it, Terry, but I can't find any systems with a LC_* or LOCALE environment variable on it normally -- I could set one explicitly, but this doesn't help me any for auto-detection. -- Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org) "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."
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