On Jan 30, 11:40 am, "Thomas H. George" <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > The man page for console_codes explains that there are two fonts > available (G0 and G1) with commands ^O and ^N to switch between them. > Furthermore, it is possible replace the standard font for G1 (VT100 > graphics) with a user-defined character set. > > I have not been able to make all this work but it suggests I could have > any characters I want by constructing an appropriate user-defined > character set for G1 and switching between G0 and G1 as needed. > > Currently the character sets for G0 and G1 seem to be identical so the > commands ^O and ^N seem to have no effect. The console_codes man page > includes references to man pages for ncurses and reset. My system has > no man page for ncurses but the man page for reset includes the command > ^Jreset^J which works and changes the current character set to a much > smaller font size, again with no difference between G0 and G1. > > Question: Should this all work as described? Is it obsolete?
It should work, but (Linux console) generally does not, for a variety of reasons. The people who've worked on the console more/less decided to ignore this aspect only only retain line-drawing as a special case in UTF-8 support. Before that, the character-switching was still not VT100-like, but aimed at switching PC fonts. There was a patch 5-6 years ago which was supposed to fix this up, but I've not see a reliable report that it was actually incorporated (and see #515609) have not modified the terminal description to use it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cfb0bf39-628f-4033-9dbe-ea7d12a0d...@z31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com
