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f'up: poster (I'll post a summary in c.u.q, in case)

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 >> Sometimes when I run dmesg, I get ASCII characters at the end of dmesg
 >> output on the screen,  something like -|  -_| L _-|.

How to _really repair that `alternate char set' stuff...

The overkill solution (according escape sequences) :

alias vtn='echo "X[mX(BX)0OX[?5lX7X[rX8" | tr '\''XO'\'' '\''\033\017'\'''
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[ Tony Nugent: comp.unix.admin, 1995/04/19 ]

The old "cat ^V^O" trick might not suffice,
 see more info on www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/charset.html )

Is that all one can/should know? (apart from `stty sane' et al)
So far i found that hint and the `Linux keyboard and console HOWTO'

Sven
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Easier way to do it:
   tput rmacs
(as long as your TERM is set correctly and the corresponding terminfo
entry defines the "rmacs" attribute).

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Quote:>> f'up: poster [in my previous posting]

 f'up: comp.unix.questions, as:

Quote:>> x-post: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware
>> Followup-To: poster  [...] (I'll post a summary in c.u.q, in case)

 your newsreader (knews 1.0b.0) `ignores' the f'up ? :)

Quote:>> [ if not only wrong character set selected, but
>>   the character sets points at wrong translation tables ]
> Easier way to do it:    tput rmacs

 no and no and yes .
 `rmacs' is just the ^O `trick' -  but `enacs' is (sometimes) right :

Quote:> $ infocmp vt100|grep rmacs
>        rmacs=^O,
> $ infocmp vt100|grep enacs
>        enacs=\E(B\E)0

ok:
 - `/bin/tput  enacs'
 - `ncurses4.2/bin/tput  enacs'
wrong:
 - `termutils-2.0/bin/tput enacs'
         won't repair, as it reads /etc/termcap, which doesn't contain
         such sequences

 ok for vt100, not for xterm:

Quote:> $ infocmp xterm|grep enacs

         enacs=\E)0
 actually the terminfo entry for `xterm' doesn't contain
 any '(' at all!  Here it repairs only the `wrong' character set.

 I am still collecting (www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/charset.html) ...
 Thanks for the tput-hint!

Sven
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