Re: problem with ACS_* displaying

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:04:51AM -0500, gaw zay wrote:
> hi,
> I noticed something weird, ACS_ characters do not display correctly (for
> example ACS_CKBOARD displays the degree symbol) when I first start up.

it depends on what font your terminal emulator uses, and is not related
to ncurses (ncurses has to assume that the terminal description you are
using is correct).

> I tested this on a Slackware 8 box and a debian box so it's not a distro
> misconfiguration thing ... I realized that if I ran BitchX it made the
> terminal display the characters correctly after that ...after doing a
> manual binary search of a "script" session and a lot of experimentation
> I have discovered that typing in this: ^[(U

man console_codes

       ESC ( U               Select null mapping - straight to character ROM
 
(but this still depends on the fonts that are loaded ;-)

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