[fpc-pascal] Problems with FP-IDE with xterm

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Dec 21 19:18:09 CET 2008


In our previous episode, Andrea said:

> I can see that all non standard ASCII character are missing (e.g. stressed
> vowel). Other times the windows appear diagonal (like the length of the
> line was wrong).

Sounds like ascii output is interpreted as something else (UTF perhaps?)

> Should I use some flags, a different character set or a different X
> terminal?

> I've tried fp -F and it does not change much.
> I've read the man page, but I did not understand much.

There is some doc here:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Terminal_%26_Fonts

However since that consoles that have UTF-8 as native encoding have popped
up that might cause problems (or not, I only guessing here)



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