Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hironori Sakamoto wrote on 2001-04-10 16:24 UTC:
>> I know some CodePage are used on PC, but why did not xterm
>> support CP437 if its characters are widely used and necessary ?
>
>Xterm has been used for at least half a decade now with the CP437 fonts
>that come with dosemu.
I don't think xterm can support CP437. At least, it doesn't work
with CP737, the one that includes Greek characters, beacuse many
of them are encoded between 128 and 160 and so they're interpreted
as control characters. In particular, small delta is encoded at
155 (CSI), which terminals are required to interpret as a control
and not as a graphical character.
When I run programms that output CP737 encoded Greek, I use an old
version of rxvt - I think recent ones are fixed with respect to CSI,
so they won't do. This probably doesn't count as a clean solution ;-)
Dosemu doesn't need this, "xdos" can open its own X window.
There is also a small patch for the linux console, to stop it from
recognising CSI. Someone surely found a need for this, since it exists.
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