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Date:      Thu,  4 May 1995 19:12:41 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Can someone explain the various forms of Japanese text encoding?
Message-ID:  <lMfxEglmu7@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <1367.799592231@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Thu, 04 May 1995 05:57:11 -0700
References:  <1367.799592231@time.cdrom.com>

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In message <1367.799592231@time.cdrom.com> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:

>sysinstall itself and do the ioctls directly) but I still don't know
>how to make the dialogs themselvse look good in these cases.  Seems
>like all the other fonts don't necessarily do line-drawing the
>same way.. :-(

It is very easy: you need separate termcap entry for each encoding
scheme. Now following entries exists:

cons25 -> for CP437
pc3r   -> for KOI8-R
<don't remember name> -> for ISO8859-1

You need switch on-the-fly between various TERMs, setterm()
ncurses fucntion should work.

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