Luca Ferrari wrote: > > > I've got a problem displaying those graphics characters that you can find > > > (for example) in ncurses based programs (I mean lines, angles, etc.). On > > > my red hat 6.2 system they are displayed fine (I mean that if I cat a > > > file which contains those character I can see them weel), but on my suse > > > 8.2 they are not. In fact they are displayed as strange alphabetic > > > characters. I don't know what's the setting to display rightly those > > > characters, anyone can help me? > > > > You have to select a suitable console font with e.g. setfont or > > consolechars. The default8x9 and default8x16 fonts usually have the > > line graphics characters, while those beginning with "iso" correspond > > to the various ISO-8859 encodings (e.g. iso01-* all use ISO-8859-1). > > > > I've tried with default fonts, but they don't display fonts very well. I found > that using fonts cp866-8x16 everything is going right, but only for pure > console (tty). How to set fonts for virtual console (i.e., graphic terminals > such as konsole)? If I try it I get: > putfont: KDFONTOP: Operation not permitted > > Any suggestion? For X-based terminal emulators, the mechanism to specify the font tends to be specific to each program (or to the GUI toolkit which it uses). E.g. xterm and rxvt use X resources, but GTK-based and Qt-based programs have their own mechanims (I'm not familiar with the details). Also, X-based programs will use X fonts rather than console fonts. Most X fonts don't include the line-graphics characters. At least, they don't include them in the G1 range (codes 160 to 255). Recent versions of XFree86 have them in some of the Unicode-encoded fonts on the 0x2500-0x25ff page, but that won't help if you're simply "cat"-ing an MS-DOS (CP437 or similar) text file. I only know of one X font which has the line-graphics characters in the G1 range, which is the "vga" font which is included with the "dosemu" program. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
