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Subject: Re: Xterm font/character set question
Summary: it is supposed to do that
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Date: 24 May 91 00:13:41 GMT
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In article <9105231045.AA26084@cas.org> lwv27@CAS.BITNET (Larry W. Virden ext. 2487) writes:
>I am trying to figure out xterm's font handling.  In the various
>docs that I have, there is a description of a series of escape
>sequences which supposedly switch between various character sets
>called G0-G3 .  Are these supposed to correspond to font 1-4 ?
nope

>
>When I run the following script (note that one line is changed from
>the literal character 'escape' to a '^[' for mail purposes...)
>I do not see what I expect - which is the current screen changing to
>the various fonts.  Instead, when Esc(0 is issued the terminal
>goes into a line drawing mode of the current window font.  )0, *0 and
>+0 as well as all other sequences in the remaining
>of the script go to the current alpha mode font.
>
>...
>Anyways, anyone know what the G0-G4 stuff is SUPPOSED to do?
>...

One of those escape sequences is supposed to go to line drawing mode
and one of them changes the '#' to a UK pound sign.  If you have the
source to xterm look at dotext() in charproc.c.  ESC ( A = United Kingdom
set, ESC ( B = ASCII, ESC ( 0 = special graphics.

-john

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