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From: scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
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Subject: Re: Eight Bit Character Output to an Xterm window?
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Date: 4 Feb 91 20:43:37 GMT
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(Dan R. Greening) writes:
|>I want an xterm window to display the pound-sterling when
|>I press KP_Subtract.  So I use 

I think you have to put the terminal into 8bit graphic character mode ...

Try <escape>(0 to start graphics mode and <escape>(B to end graphics mode.

I believe the pound sign is '}'.



PS: I have a few sample text files that draw boxes and stuff if anyone wants
  examples.

PPS: Some fonts have glyphs for the 8bit characters and some don't.  The 
  standard fixed width fonts ("6x13" for example) do have 8 bit characters.

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