Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:58:23 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: Bash Issues |
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Al Viro - your the greatest! Alan has again pointed me in the right direction (as have you). I am looking through the ncurses and unicode stuff as we speak. I think I'm almost there.
Your friend,
Jeff
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Either just ignore him, or help him. Flaming people will never help them. > > Urgh... I guess that you had less support calls along those lines. > > OK, anyway: problem has _nothing_ with terminal settings or with the > shell. Couldn't have anything with the latter and posted code does the > right thing with the former (even if it wasn't originally set right, which > I doubt). However, different charsets have different locations for > pseudo-graphics. And believe me, lots of DOS programs were butt-ugly on > (e.g.) Cyrillic charsets. Could you spell "box boundary consisting of > letters"? Sweet memories of client config utilities from NW 2.x on > Pravetz... If you need CGA-compatible charset - use cp437. For more > graceful solution - check dialog(1). BTW, I suspect that you could > seriously cut down on the coding simply calling dialog or whiptail - they > can handle such stuff quite fine. > > And now for the first part of advice...
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