Alternate character sets

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1 total messages Started by Bill Silvert Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:28

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Author: Bill Silvert
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:28

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Novice question:  does SGI support the alternate character set defined
in curses.h by #define A_ALTCHARSET    000100000000L ?
The latest version of gopher (1.1) uses this to draw a box, but on the
SGI console all you get is a mess of letters.  Is there some way to use
an extended character set so that these "business graphics" appear?

The box is drawn correctly when I log in from a PC as a terminal.

Is this perhaps just a matter of choosing the right screen font?  If so,
how do I know which fonts support line drawing characters?
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