Re: Charset in dosemu 1.1.3.7

[Przemyslaw Czerpak <druzus@acn.waw.pl>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Anderson Pereira Ataides wrote:
> Until dosemu 1.1.3, graphic chars (used to draw windows) were displayed ok in 
> X window system. In console (text mode) it did not work with automatic 
> configuration, but when I modified dosemu.conf by setting 
> $term_char_set="ibm" it worked ok in both graphic (X) and text (console) 
> modes.
> Now I made the same thing with 1.1.3.7 but it is still showing wrong charset. 
> Borders are built with strange chars. How do I solve it? Now I see in 
> dosemu.conf that there are more options about charset. I tried change those 
> parameters, but could not solve my problem.
> Any suggestions?

I don't know why it was changed but new dosemu display chars using G0
charset only and dosn't change to G1 if it's neccessary.
Short and dirty hack if you only need rombased charset:
before you run dosemu try:
echo -ne '\033(U'

and when you finish:
echo -ne '\033(K'

best regards,
Przemek