From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Willem Stumpel Subject: Re: Control chars Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:53:44 +0100 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40182158.6060107@my.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Bart Oldeman wrote: >> Display of IBM "control characters" like =E2=86=91 (up arrow), =E2=86= =93=20 >> (down arrow) [..] Or is there a trick to get these chars also >> while being a user? > no you can't get them as a user without significant coding=20 > effort, ie. utf-8 support [..] /dev/vcsa [..] [head spins] Just to make certain: I wasn't asking about UTF-8 support in old DOS, which of course no one would expect. I=C2=B4m just talking about the display of the up-arrow character, and similar IBM chars with values below 0x20, in very old DOS programs (like IBM Fixed Disk Organizer), which is OK for root but not for user. Sorry if I misunderstood you... Regards, Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html