[PLUG] Need IBM PC line draw chars ....

[Wil Cooley]

Also Sprach Michael Rasmussen <rasmussenm at columbiafunds.com> on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:24:23AM PDT
> > From: Bruce Kingsland [mailto:brucek at kingkon.com]
> 
> > Under rh52, when I brought up certain files that contained line draw
> > chars from the old IBM PC char set (ascii values above 127) I could
> > see them as expected. Under rh72, these same files produce foreign
> > symbols rather than line draw chars. Any ideas what changed where, so
> > that I can continue sane modifications of these files?
> 
> 
> What changed was the character set of the font you are using. The default
> install now is a set of iso8859-X (X being 1 to 15) This is to support
> internationalization.  It seems that the USASCII font set is no longer
> included with RH.  I'd suggest grabbing your old CDs and looking for fonts
> that aren't included any more and installing them.

Or use 'latin1'.  To view files with high-bit chars in less, I set
'LESSCHARSET=latin1'.  Mutt and links use line drawing, and I didn't
have to do anything for them to work right.

Wil
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