Re: mc under Eterm

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Alessandro Magni wrote:
> > > Pity that no chars at all are printed for the graphic chars (yet they are
> > > present in the font I use,  -b&h-luxi
> > > mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1),
> > > but at least mc is usable.
> >
> > This is because you are not using the right font. xterm-like terminals
> > which do no support unicode - I guess Eterm is one of them - expect
> > that the glyphs for the line drawing characters are found in cells 0-31.
>
> yes/no: some terminals draw the lines directly:

Sure. I just didn't know whether Eterm supports a similiar feature or 
not and since I do not have Eterm installed I didn't bother to check.

In any case I think it would be good if Alessandro changed the
font encoding to iso8859 if Eterm is not unicode capable.