On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:32:15PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-03-27:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I don't use the linux console much, so I didn't care much about the
> > following until now, but still:
> >
> > I have a redhat 7.3 workstation. I tried swtching it to unicode as much
> > as possible.
> >
> > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> > LANG="he_IL.UTF-8"
> > #SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en"
> > SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-16"
> >
> This is a 512-characters font, using a little-known nifty feature of
> VGA (and EGA?): it can be configure to select one of two 256-character
> fonts according to each cell's high foreground bit.  So you lose 16
> foreground colors and must do with 8.  In practice this should means
> that bold mode stops being interpretted - but I don't know how is it
> configured exactly.
> 
> I'd be surprised though if it continues for new output you create (try
> ls --color, emacs -> M-x list-colors-display, vim with any shell
> script :-] or manual tputs) - I believe it is only for what is
> *already on the screen*.  There should be some incantation to
> translate the current screen contents but I never bothered to learn
> it.
> 
> > However the console has a major problem: color (ascii) characters look
> > like some random cyrillic characters. This is even after I run unicode_start .
> >
> Try ``showcfont`` (or ``showfont``?) 

showcfont . Showfont seems to be related to x here.

>                                      before and after the
> unicode_start/stop for insight.  Check whether it also affects new
> output.

The output of showcfont gives me blanks for chars 0x100 to 0x1FF (the
"high" 256 chars). It does not seem to be affected by
unicode_start/unicode_stop (the "low" chars).

Anyway, when I run vim (either with unicodestarted or stopped) I see in
the background capital G with a hat (like ^), but such a char does not
appear in the font I see in the output of showcfont.

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