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Re: alternate charset


On Sep 23 21:42, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Corinna Vinschen:
> > The alternate
> > charset, typically only used for the graphical characters anyway,
> > could be either CP 437, or what GetOEMCP() returns.
> 
> I think the alternate charset should be fixed to CP437. That's what
> PuTTY and mintty do, and here's the relevant line from
> http://linux.die.net/man/4/console_codes, the man page for the Linux
> console:
> 
> ESC ( U 		Select null mapping - straight to character ROM
> 
> And from the CP437 wikipedia page:
> 
> "Today, [CP437] is still the primary font in the core of any EGA and
> VGA compatible graphic card, i.e. the text you can see on screen when
> a PC reboots, before any other font can be loaded from a storage
> medium, is rendered with this code page."
> 
> (Btw, the "alternate charset" is a PC-specific thing. vt100 and xterm
> don't have it.)

Erm?  AFAIK VT220 terminals already had multiple fonts, including a
font with the typical graphical frame and block characters.  There
were ESC sequences to switch between those fonts to allow nice forms
and sheet display.


Corinna

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