Re: Character sets

["Bart Oldeman" <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>]

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