Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:03:19 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Cygwin Termcap information involving extended ascii charicters Message-ID: <20010226100319.H27406@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <000701c09fa5$f874d380$cb0b3ed8@dhs.org> <56235443650.20010226105530@logos-m.ru> <000501c09fcb$f0944440$cb0b3ed8@dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000501c09fcb$f0944440$cb0b3ed8@dhs.org>; from uther@uth3r.dhs.org on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:13:02AM -0600 On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:13:02AM -0600, Uther Pendragon wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Monday, 26 February, 2001 Uther Pendragon uther@uth3r.dhs.org wrote: > > > > UP> Hello, This isn't really a bug as such.. I just wanted to know how the > shell > > UP> itself interprets the ansi code for switching to and from the extended > ascii > > UP> tables.. by standard its usually > > UP> "\033[12m" and "\033[11m" > > UP> but that doesnt seem to work in cygwin... if you can tell me how it > does, > > UP> will or can interpret it, I can fix the termcap info for it and submit > it.. > > UP> thanks for your time. > > > > what exactly do you mean by "extended ascii tables" here? if you mean > > characters with ascii codes 0x80-0xff then no special tty commands > > are needed to output them in cygwin console: cygwin console is 8-bit > > one. So the answer to your question is "currently it's simply ignore > > them" > > > > Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 > > > > but this means that several programs that use the extended ascii charicters > by changing the charicter set will not, i.e. midnight commander, the colors > and function keys work, but the box and edge graphics wont show correctly, > is there any future plans to correct this? Patches are welcome. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple