Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Supporting Macintosh FinderInfo/Resource Fork in Linux NWFS 2.0 | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:18:56 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said: > I'm using the ACS_* characters in ncurses. These map to +=-, etc. on > terminals that don't have support for the box characters (an Alan Cox > suggestion -- excellent one at that). Folks were right about the 8 bit > stuff, it's a char set mapping problem, and the console is putting out > the **wrong** 8 bit characters for line drawing. It's a shame that > ncurses is dumb and doesn't detect this and switch to cp_437 during > initscr().
You got me there. How is ncurses supposed to find out what (if anything) appears on screen when it outputs <random byte>? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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