Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <5A95B0B37820D511AD1500B0D0AADF774DE06B@lbsvnt4> From: BStrohhaecker AT Hueller-Hille DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: jelks AT jelks DOT nu Subject: Midnight Commander & graphic chars Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:33:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" From: "Jelks Cabaniss" Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:54:56 -0400 > mc displays graphic line borders fine under X-windows, but in the normal > bash console, these render as iso-* letters (like capital A's with > umlauts). I can suppress all such attempts at line drawing with "mc > -s", but I'm wondering if there's a way to have them display as expected > in the bash console. > > Thanks, > > /Jelks I've asked this about 3 weeks ago, so you should find it in the archives :-) Nevertheless, - for bash add 'codepage:oem' to your cygwin-setting - for rxvt use an ascii-font like 'Lucida ConsoleP-14' and set your TERM to 'rxvt-cygwin-native', e.g.: alias rx='rxvt -sr -sl 9999 -fn "Lucida ConsoleP-14" -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -bg black -fg grey -e bash --login &' The 'Lucida ConsoleP-14' font you can find here: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/bashprompt/luconP.zip HTH, Bernd -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/