Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:08:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical characters? Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960502120624.15885p-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199605020945.JAA02295@CoDe.CoDe.hu>
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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: <ESC>[m is sgr0 on a vt100 like terminal > Sometimes <ESC>(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
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