From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 12:09:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA17469 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 12:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17462 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 12:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA07686; Thu, 2 May 1996 12:08:30 -0700 Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:08:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang To: Gabor Zahemszky cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical characters? In-Reply-To: <199605020945.JAA02295@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 May 1996, Gabor Zahemszky wrote: > > > 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 ) Hmmm, so it's just ESC and then Ctrl-M? what key is (B? I remembered the people on irc used to say hit ESC and then a bunch of style typed in and then hit some ctrl-key combination.... I remembered I was able to do this in csh and tcsh... Richard