Fwd: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Alex Naysmith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Frederic Marchal Date: 18 July 2015 at 12:41 Subject: Re: Changing the terminal character set To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:52:33 Alex Naysmith wrote: > I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I

Re: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:52:33 Alex Naysmith wrote: > I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 > character set. > > How can I change the character encoding in the XFCE terminal [v0.4.8] from > UTF-8 to CP437 or IBM437? > > Alternatively, I did attempt to change the

Re: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 messidor, an CCXXIII, Alex Naysmith a écrit : > I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 > character set. Why exactly? All the characters in CP437 are present in Unicode, as far as I can see. Therefore, you could just map the code point in the antiquated enc

Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Alex Naysmith
I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 character set. How can I change the character encoding in the XFCE terminal [v0.4.8] from UTF-8 to CP437 or IBM437? Alternatively, I did attempt to change the system locale from en_GB.UTF-8 to one that contained CP437/IBM437. How