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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:55:30 +0300
From: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: "Uther Pendragon" <uther AT uth3r DOT dhs DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Termcap information involving extended ascii charicters
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Hi!

Monday, 26 February, 2001 Uther Pendragon uther AT uth3r DOT dhs DOT 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 AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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