alternate charset

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep 24 13:23, Andy Koppe wrote:
> From "Random facts you never wanted to know about terminals" Vol. 3:
> 
> There are two different graphical character charsets:
> - The VT100 linedraw character set, to be found throughout the VT
> series and also in xterm and rxvt. This is selected with "\e(0", and
> replaces characters 0x60 through 0x7F with various oddities.

Heh.  Adding this capability to the Cygwin console might be a funny side
project at one point :)

> - The "Alternate Character Set" (ACS, aka "VGA", "OEM", or, whisper
> it, "sco"), which is found in e.g. in the Linux console and the Cygwin
> console. This is selected with "\e(U", switching 0x80..0xFF to CP437.

I see.  Well, I guess CP437 is the right choice for the alternate charset.


Corinna

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