Re: lantern symbol?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Brian Raiter wrote:

> Most of the ACS characters are self-explanatory, but the exception is
> ACS_LANTERN, which is only described as a "lantern symbol". I've never
> been able to find a reference to what character this actually was.
> Most implementations either don't render this symbol, or else show the
> graphic representation of ASCII 12 (U+240B), for reasons I can only
> guess at.
>
> Does anybody know what the lantern symbol actually looked like on an
> actual VT-100?

It's not a VT-100 symbol - the comment in ncurses' curses.h says it's
from a Teletype 5410v1

(the definition itself was from SVr4 curses).

> (Sadly I've only once had access to a real, physical VT-100, and it
> was in a situation without a machine to connect it to.)

It's been a while since I've seen one (or vt220's or vt420's).

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