From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 7:17:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from router.darlow.co.uk (pc1-bigg2-0-cust221.lut.cable.ntl.com [62.255.179.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01FE37B403 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 07:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neil@darlow.co.uk) Received: from ideal.darlow.co.uk (neil@ideal.darlow.co.uk [192.168.0.3]) by router.darlow.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f74EHdO65698; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 15:17:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from neil@darlow.co.uk) From: Neil Darlow Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 14:17:39 GMT Message-ID: <20010804.14173900@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Subject: Re: How do I display IBM-box-drawing characters? To: Kevin Oberman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200108032149.f73LnIm27037@ptavv.es.net> References: <200108032149.f73LnIm27037@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Kevin, Thanks for that useful info. In practice the solution was simpler. I had exported TERM as vt100 over my SSH connection before starting screen. Changing this to xterm permits the display of the line-drawing characters. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow GPG fingerprint =3D 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 On 8/3/01, 10:49:18 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Are you talking about the DEC VT100 line drawing characters? The ones > with horizontal and vertical lines and corners? If so, you need to > look for fonts with the DECTECH encoding from DEC registry. The > foundry is also DEC, as I recall. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message