Re: Character sets

["Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk>]

Hi Bart,
	Thanks, that sounds reasonable. What I forgot to say is that I see this when 
logged in via Putty or ssh. Is there an easy way of turning off UTF-8 
support, perhaps an environment variable?

Thanks


Andrew


On Tuesday 22 January 2008 16:52, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jan 22, 2008 9:16 AM, Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)
>
> <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> wrote:
> >         I've a quick question about the character set support in dosemu
> > 1.2.2. I have previously rebuilt an rpm from source rpm on a Centos 3
> > system and everything worked fine, all of the box drawing characters were
> > available when necessary. Now I take the same rpm source file, rebuild it
> > on a Centos 5.1 system, and applications are not able to use the box
> > drawing characters, they are using characters like 'A' with a little
> > horizontal colon on the top.
>
> I'm guessing that Centos 5.1 uses UTF-8 by default but Centos 3 did
> not. DOSEMU 1.2.2 did not support UTF-8.
> You can try DOSEMU 1.4.0, or iso-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, or xdosemu.
>
> Bart
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