Hi There Again
Not sure if this list is still working but i have been playing around a bit
and found part of the problem.
Progress has it's own termcap definitions in a file called protermcap. The
following is defined for vt220:
:GS=^N:\
:GE=^O:\
:G1=k:\
:G2=l:\
:G3=m:\
:G4=j:\
:GH=q:\
:GV=x:\
When starting screen with "screen -T vt220" and then running mpro I get
strange fonts appearing in the telnet terminal emulator(this does not have
support for UTF-8) as well as in putty(if this is set to ISO 8895-1) but
with putty when the translation is set to UTF-8 the lines are drawn
correctly.
When I modify the protermcap and change GS and GE to be: ":GS=:\" and
":GE=:\" the lines for the boxes are printed using the defined characters
for G1 through GV as above(the characters only, no line drawing)
What I need is what would i need to define for the GS and GE characters for
screen to correctly begin Graphical Line Drawing for ISO 8895-1 and what
octal or characters are required for G1 to GV?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Micha <deric.ve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi There
>
> I need some help with the following situation if it is at all possible. We
> are using the Progress Database with MFG and QAD. We have a Java based
> Telnet emulator PASSPORT WEB TO HOST by the Zephyr Corp and I am looking at
> a way to get this working with gnu screen. I am not sure where to start but
> the current problem is that the output characters for the border of the
> character based menu does not display as it should using screen. I have some
> screen dumps in jpg format but i am not sure if this can be posted to the
> mailing list.
>
> I do know the following:
> 1.) PASSPORT to WEB does not have support for UTF-8
> 2.) The MFG/QAD/Progress code uses it's own termcap(protermcap) but within
> it there does not seem to be the problem.
> 3.) I have tried looking for information on the web for setting to use in
> .screenrc to help but to no avail.
> 4.) I have tried to use defutf8 off but this does not change anything on
> how the characters are displayed.
> 5.) I have tried putty and setting the translation to UTF-8 and used
> Progress with the screen displaying correctly.
>
> What I think, if i am correct, i'm looking for is someway to change the
> output of screen from UTF-8 and such encoding to possible ISO8859-1 as the
> telnet terminal emulator(PASSPORT WEB to HOST) is not able to translate the
> outputed screen and display correctly.
>
> Any help in this matter would be appreciated. Any direction. If needed and
> if possible i can attach the screen dumps if this would help in seeing what
> I mean.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
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