From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ryan Underwood" Subject: Re: Virtual Modems on dosemu (cp437 in linux console) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 01:00:07 +0000 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030306010008.E313D75387@mail.icequake.net> References: <20030305175241.84320.qmail@web13905.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dperry.geo@yahoo.com Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org > > Newer Linux kernels are ISO-8859-1 codepage by > > defeault. You must explicitly > > set the codepage with: charset G0 cp437 > > in a virtual console that you want to use IBM > > characters in. If you want > > to use cp437 (IBM) character set in a X terminal, > > you must install the VGA > > font (vga.pcf) and tell the terminal to use it when > > you run it (typically > > with -fn vga or -font vga). > > I don't typically run the BBS in an X window, so that > is not much concern to me. However, I would be > interested in knowing how to specify the proper > codepage in a VC. Can you tell me how to do that? If you're using the newer console-tools: $ charset G0 cp437 There is a different method that I can't remember for the old console-tools. -- Ryan Underwood, , icq=10317253