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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:41:10 +0300
From:      =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   mouse chars default (was Re: syscons becomes worse somwhere in v1.252-1.255)
Message-ID:  <19980213204110.51597@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199802131711.SAA11827@sos.freebsd.dk>; from sos@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 06:11:10PM %2B0100
References:  <19980213193928.28090@nagual.pp.ru> <199802131711.SAA11827@sos.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 06:11:10PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> In reply to [______ ______] who wrote:
> [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > 
> > For 2) - I think we need to make 0x03 ad _default_ mouse character code
> > instead of 0xd0 as was before. 0xd0 very depends on code table used and
> > points to valid used character in many tables while 0x03 don't confuse
> > anybody since lower controls not used in termcap entries and for national
> > character too. Any objections?
> 
> YES! it makes the mouse cursor look really bad if the chars is not in
> the interval 0xc0-0xdf. In that interval you can pick and chose...

You mean thin vertical black lines in mouse cursor? I even didn't notice
them until you point on it, so "really bad" is too strong phrase :-) 
Well, I agree. The question remains what is worse for _default_: national
characters overlap (i.e. Russian termcap entry already is in conflict with
0xd0 and with any 0xc0-0xdf characters) or thin vertical lines in mouse
cursor...

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nietzsche.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/

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