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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:17:59 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r186731 - head/sys/dev/syscons/teken
Message-ID:  <20090105221759.GA57949@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl>
References:  <200901040020.n040KIcc041121@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104120434.GF93900@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20090104121331.GC14235@hoeg.nl> <20090105171523.GC50568@dragon.NUXI.org> <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl>

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On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:22:43PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello David,
> * David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Why xterm and not vt100?
> 
> The reason I'm proposing xterm, is because it is the best supported
> terminal type out there. Example: if we would use TERM=vt100, we would
> only get black & white. If we use TERM=vt100-color, we do get the

There's always vt340. :-)  But I see your point that color is desired.

> I hope that answers your question?

Yes - thank you for the good explanation.  I thought it might be UTF-8
related, but really don't know too much about UTF-8.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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