[fpc-devel] fpcsrc/rtl/unix/video.pp

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On 11/3/06, Tomas Hajny <XHajT03 at mbox.vol.cz> wrote:
> Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Matthew V. Kotov wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hello,Free Pascal development team!
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, I speak English very bad.
> >> >
> >> > In file fpcsrc/rtl/unix/video.pp nessesary take away lines:
> >> >
> >> >          If fpGetEnv('TERM')='xterm' then
> >> >            NoExtendedFrame := true;  {use of acs for xterm is ok}
> >> >
> >> > because it prevents using cyrillic symbols (codepage CP1251).
> >>
> >> Before we apply this patch: What is the side effect for graphic
> >> characters ?
> >
> > Afaik this kills linedrawing.
>
> This is something to be addressed in video.pp - we need to detect the
> character set supported by console at startup (optionally with a
> possibility to change it later on). This is something we partly touched in
> discussion with Daniel in Eindhoven (but I haven't managed to do anything
> regarding video.pp since then, unfortunately :-((( ). Ability to use
> linedrawing characters directly depends on that, obviously.
>
> Does anybody here have an idea how to address that issue in Unix/Linux
> environment (like an environment variable similar to TERM, etc.)? I can
> imagine we might need to define our own solution if no standard solution
> exists (e.g. we might require users to setup some environment variable
> explicitly on systems not providing such information in an automated way,
> plus have some reasonable default).

As far as I understand, line drawing comes instead of font drawing. I
mean if I have font file loaded, it is responsible for line drawing.
The line drawing ability is to allow others to draw their own fonts if
no font file was loaded ...

So if I got it right, what is the problem ?!

>
> Tomas
>

Ido
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