Re: CP437 Output

Dan Nelson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In the last episode (Dec 28), Phil!Gregory said:
> I have a terminal that expects to receive characters in CP437
> encoding, but screen is sending them in ISO-8859-1.  Is there a way
> to get screen to encode to CP437?
> 
> I had a look at the encoding command.  It seems to do what I want,
> but won't output to CP437.  Is there more that screen does with
> character encodings than just hand the names to iconv?  (In other
> words, does it need to be as restrictive with the charsets it will
> accept?)

screen doesn't use iconv; it looks like everything is manually handled
in encodings.c , and only a few encodings are supported.  That said, I
haven't really had any problems with cp437 characters.  My applications
send them and screen just passes them right through unmolested.  So you
have a simple example showing that screen is messing with your
characters?

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	Dan Nelson
	[email protected]

 

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