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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:03:19 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Termcap information involving extended ascii charicters
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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 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
> >
> 
> 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

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