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From: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland@steeltorch.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C277161.7090408@ece.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011220114800.05cdd2d8@lnxmain>

Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:

> In short:
> What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt?


In console, add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable.

In rxvt, use a font that actually contains the box chars -- try "LuconP" 
from here:

http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/

For Xserver fonts, try these:
http://shelluser.net/~giles/bashprompt/xfonts/index.html

--Chuck




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      reply	other threads:[~2001-12-24 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-20 10:00 Roland Glenn McIntosh
2001-12-24 11:13 ` Charles Wilson [this message]

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