From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 04:57:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA19298 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 04:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA19293 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 04:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id NAA15307; Thu, 2 May 1996 13:51:41 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (JAA02295); Thu, 2 May 1996 09:45:33 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199605020945.JAA02295@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: graphical characters? To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 09:45:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 30, 96 11:00:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 2) If everything is garbled, it means that somebody send to the terminal > > (or to the emulator) a Set Alternate character set sequence, so > > try: > > tput rmacs (ReMove Alternate Character Set), or > > tput op > > tput init > > tput reset > > reset > > tput sgr0 > > I think, one of these will work. > > It's everything is garbled but I remembered there was a way to do > something with the Escape key to fix it but does anyone know how? > Yes. You have to type this characters manually (rmacs/sgr0/...) Eg: [m is sgr0 on a vt100 like terminal Sometimes (B, or simply ^O but you have to have a shell, which doesn't handle the control characters inside (as in csh with set filec/tcsh/sh/ksh/bash in line editing modes, etc ) -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky