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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:45:04 +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:

>> 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"

UP> but this means that several programs that use the extended ascii charicters
UP> by changing the charicter set will not, i.e. midnight commander, the colors
UP> and function keys work, but the box and edge graphics wont show correctly,
UP> is there any future plans to correct this?

Box  characters have nothing to do with extended ascii codes. They are
described in acsc capability in your terminfo entry. Your problem with
mc  arise from the fact that windows consoles have 2 modes -- ansi and
oem.   Original  terminfo  entry  was  written for oem mode, which was
default  at that time. Sometime ago cygwin have changed its default to
ansi   mode and it lead to problem with box characters -- in ansi mode
box   characters  have different codes.

To  solve  your  problem  you  have  two   options. You can either set
cygwin default console mode to 'oem' by  adding    'codepage:oem'   to
your CYGWIN variable, or change acsc capability in terminfo entry.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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