[fpc-pascal] Pseudographics in FPC-IDE

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 06/13/2011 08:39 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I  have installed FPC on a Linux machine to find that in the
> virtual terminal (true text-mode,  not  GUI-based  emulator)
> FP-IDE  does not dispaly pseudographics correctly. It turned
> out that changes to the SFM (Screen Font Map)  doesn't  have
> any effect inside the IDE, and I count'd understand why.
>
> Then, in the WIKI I found this:
>
>      On a terminal with VGA character set (currently only the
>      Linux console), the video unit will enable the VGA char-
>      acters and use them without translation.
>
> which answered my question.
>
> My  console  is in UTF8 mode, using an ISO8859-1 font, while
> the FP-IDE, as it seems, is accessing pseudographics symbols
> directly  by  glyph  number  (and  bypassing the SFM table),
> expecting them to be at locations  specified  in  the  CP437
> encoding:
>
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP437
>
> which  means  that  it  will  only work with a CP437-encoded
> font.
>
> Why was this done and is there a workaround except re-encod-
> ing the console font into CP437?
Modern FPC versions should support UTF-8 output for the IDE. I made a 
patch for this, that was included in fpc 2.4.2 IIRC. Which FPC version 
are you using and on which linux distro/version? What is the value of 
the LANG environment variable?