Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Robert de Bath <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> Very useful information.
> BUT the script only sets G1, in many (most?) situations it's normal to
> use either G2 or G3 for the GR set and reserve G1 for the DEC Special
> Graphic set so your can use ^O and ^N to map in line drawing characters.
>
No, it doesn't. It sets G0 to US-ASCII and then sets G1 to the "other
half" of the charset.
I guess what you're suggesting is to set the desired GR set in G2 and
issue an LS2R sequence (<ESC><}>). I guess this makes sense from an
ISO 2022 perspective; however, as far as I can tell it would violate
ISO 8859 which states that G0 and G1 shall be used.
> This way you can pretend your terminal is the mythical beast called
> an 8-bit VT100.
Sort of like the Linux console does, except it gets it all wrong
(using G0-switching sequences, with the desired contents of GR, to
switch the entire codepage...)
-hpa
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