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The simplest way to do the porting is to find an X-Window font that includes
the usual 32-127 characters plus an approximation to the box-drawing set on
the VGA card.  But I couldn't find -- in the reasonably complete load from
RH 5.2 -- any fonts that met these requirements.

If I can't do this, then the next simplest way to do this is to take an
existing font and replace some of the characters I don't need (and won't
ever need -- this is an embedded application, not mass-market software) and
edit the font to add the characters I need.  But I haven't been able to find
a font-editor either.

All suggestions (or solutions) are welcome.

Thanks
    Norm

    Norm

Cheers,
Juergen

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On a properly encoding-aware installation of X (e.g. XFree86 3.9.x),
the encoding for fixed may be something like iso8859-1, which doesn't
have the box drawing characters. If you want these, you have to
specify the registry as iso10646 and use the Unicode encodings for the
box drawing characters.

David Wragg

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     The xterm program is a terminal emulator for  the  X  Window
     System.  It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible
     terminals for programs that  can't  use  the  window  system
     directly.   If the underlying operating system supports ter-
     minal resizing capabilities (for example, the SIGWINCH  sig-
     nal  in  systems  derived  from  4.3bsd), xterm will use the
     facilities to notify programs running in the window whenever
     it is resized.

(you can either use the line-drawing characters as they're designed to work
in vt100 convention, or hardcode assignments against a specific font - but
it helps to know which you intend to do).

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Quote:> Because I'm porting a program that originally ran under MS-DOS (sort-of, but
> that's a long, off-topic story) on a PC, I really need to be able to display
> what in the PC-world are called the line-drawing (or box-drawing) characters
> within an xterm window.  It's easy from a text-terminal because they are in
> the VGA-card's native character set, but the X-Window fonts don't include
> these characters, though they include a large number of "foreign" language
> characters which my application doesn't need.

> The simplest way to do the porting is to find an X-Window font that includes
> the usual 32-127 characters plus an approximation to the box-drawing set on
> the VGA card.  But I couldn't find -- in the reasonably complete load from
> RH 5.2 -- any fonts that met these requirements.

    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf.gz
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga11x9.pcf.gz

These are of course two vga X11 fonts as used by xdos. These won't work in
an xterm, under which you will *never* get the double line characters.

However if you only want the program to run under X11, then you could use
these fonts to write a DOS screen emulation library in Xlib. A starting
point would be DOSemu again.

JAB.

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