On 5/23/2011 3:42 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 23 May 2011 17:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> In the former, I see pseudo-line drawing characters (e.g hyphens and >>> plus signs, etc), but in the latter I see real line draw characters. >> >> Whatever that is, I guess it may not be overly tricky to implement in >> mintty as well, *if* somebody takes the time to report the problem. > > Mintty does support that already. The feature was introduced by a > certain three-letter PC Unix company, and the Linux console supports > it too. > > The DEC vtXXX series did not have that, however, which is why xterm > doesn't either. Instead, they have the "DEC Special Character and Line > Drawing Set". When activated, character codes 0x60 to 0x7E map to > those special characters, as shown here: > http://vt100.net/docs/vt102-ug/table5-13.html. Mintty supports that > one too.
Yes, I had thought that you'd put some work in that, which is (one reason) I was confused. >>> My point: there are some things that don't yet seem to work "right" in >>> mintty, and I'm not really sure where the problem is. > > Chuck, what font are you using in mintty? It could just be that it > doesn't have glyphs for the relevant codepoints, in which case mintty > falls back to ASCII replacements. The default Lucida Console does have > the linedrawing glyphs needed for the vt100 set. </emily litella>Never mind. http://www.hulu.com/watch/2364/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-emily-litella-on-violins-on-tv Yep, works fine with Lucida Console. I was using Consolas, which IMO looks better...but yep, it appears to be missing the glyphs -- although rumor has it that MS added the glyphs in their W7 version of this font. Since I'm running Vista and XP, well... I probably knew that at one point. Maybe. > If it's not that, then the xterm terminfo entry would indeed need a closer > look. > > You can test support for the CP437 alternate charset, the vt100 > graphics, and also direct Unicode line drawing by catting the attached > file created by Thomas Wolff. Neat. Do we have a list of "good" fonts for mintty, or is it basically just Lucida Console + Courier New? Maybe when I get home I'll test out a few... Consolas Andale Mono Courier New Lucida Console Vera Sans Mono (or DejaVu LGC Sans) Droid Sans Mono Inconsolata ... -- Chuck
