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From: carlson@mrx.webo.dg.com (James Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: xterm terminfo
Keywords: sterm terminfo box-graphics
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Date: 24 Jun 91 13:17:50 GMT
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In article <479@faximum.UUCP>, jeff@faximum.UUCP (Jeff Tate) writes:
|> 
|> If anyone knows the correct sequences for the "acsc" capability in the
|> xterm terminfo entry to produce box graphics, could you please E-mail
|> them to me.  I am unable to divine them myself, and am sick of stuff like:
|> 
|> 	ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?
|> 	3                     3
|> 	3  Should be in box   3
|> 	3                     3
|> 	@DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY
|> 
|> Thanx in advance
|> 
|> 
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That looks to me like PC line drawing characters with the upper bit stripped
off.
You're going to have to do some fancy footwork to get those to work right.  If
you were really having trouble with the acsc string, the output might look
like:

	lrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk
	x                    x
	x  Should be in box  x
	x                    x
	mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrj

(I hate it when people depend on awful non-standard things like IBM PC
character
sets, but what can you do?)

You might try:

	acsc=~`1axfqgYj?kZl@mEn_o_pDq_r_sCt4uAvBw3xsyrzc{w|b}y~

This will map the characters correctly (more or less), assuming you know how to
handle the 8th-bit characters ...

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