Character sets

Character sets

[Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)]

Hi guys,
	Firstly thanks for the excellent software. I've been using it on off for 
quite a few years now, always with good results.
	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 can only 
assume that there was some development library missing on the later system, 
so that during ./configure it worked around its absence.
	Can anyone suggest what might be missing on the Centos 5.1 system, or am I 
completely off the mark here and missing something completely different? The 
dosemu.conf files are identical between the two systems.

Thanks


Andrew

Re: Character sets

[John Coppens]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:16:40 +0000
"Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anyone suggest what might be missing on the Centos 5.1 system, or
> am I completely off the mark here and missing something completely
> different? The dosemu.conf files are identical between the two systems.

I seem to remember you have to load the character table for the box
characters. Something like vga.pcf.gz - did you install that on the new
machine?

John

Re: Character sets

[Bart Oldeman]

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

Re: Character sets

[Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)]

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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Re: Character sets

[Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)]

Hi John,
	That would be for X? What I failed to say is that the problem is seen when 
logging into that machine using Putty or ssh.

Thanks,

Andrew

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 16:33, John Coppens wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:16:40 +0000
>
> "Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest what might be missing on the Centos 5.1 system, or
> > am I completely off the mark here and missing something completely
> > different? The dosemu.conf files are identical between the two systems.
>
> I seem to remember you have to load the character table for the box
> characters. Something like vga.pcf.gz - did you install that on the new
> machine?
>
> John