From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Subject: Re: [Q] special characters on Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 09:52:31 GMT
wirzeniu@cs.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>Enrico.Scotoni@purplet.demon.co.uk (Enrico Scotoni) writes:
>> FC>2. If it is possible, what should I do while writing C programs to
>> > display them ? (I want to port a program from DOS to Linux, but I get
>> > in trouble with the graphic characters.) In addition, I have a program
>The "ANSI-ASCII" used by Linux is usually called Latin-1, although I
>think the official name is ISO 8849-1, for the international standard
>for the character code (I could be wrong about that).
Savio Lam posted a message to c.o.l.a about a modified Xterm and a
colour ansi font set for X.
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I've uploaded to sipb.mit.edu in directory /pub/seyon/MISC a patch to
color_xterm.tar.Z at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/X11/xutils. This patch
is intended to eliminate the incompatibilities between color xterm and
ANSI terminal emulation. There are also a few enhancements in the way
color xterm handles bold and underline text.
The files are:
ansi_xterm-0.1-patch /* The diff */
ansi_xterm-0.1-tar.z /* The patched source */
ansi_xterm-0.1-txt /* Lists the
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If you want to use it as terminal emulator when calling DOS based
BBS's, you
may also want to get a font which supports the DOS graphics characters from
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils/nls/LinuXinterDOS.tar.z
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