Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> Max-Wilhelm Bruker wrote:
>
> > > I suspect that the easiest thing to do, is to provide the user
> > > the ability to create a translation file, which maps all possible
> > > 256 VGA characters to whatever they want.
> >
> > yes, maybe. but why don't we have this problem when drawing our own
> > chars into a window?
>
> Terminal programs in X use whatever font you tell them to,
> by default or explicitly. Best way is to tell them to use
> the same font that plex86 uses to draw VGA characters.
>
> The VGA character set is not equivalent to ASCII outside of
> the range 0x20..0x7E. Try "man ascii" and "xfd -fn vga"
> to see the difference.
>
> On a vt100, the only solution would be to offer a translation
> matrix to let you display characters in place of the VGA ones
> emitted. It is possible to load fonts into the console. I've
> never used it, but I see a man page for consolechars.
i guess, we needn't adapt plex86 to real vt100 terminals :)
i will boot into linux with x sometime and try if the umlauts are still
displayed incorrectly.
i don't really have a problem with the blinking umlauts, i just wanted
to report it in case it was a bug.
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