On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:27:42 +0200 (CEST) Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > I followed the suggestion made sometime ago about loading cp850-8x16 > > > > font to get the line drawing characters when in the IDE on the console, > > > > but noticed then I don't have certain characters available on the > > > > keyboard, such as '/' etc. Whats the solution to this. This whole issue > > > > of fonts and codepages is a little beyond me :) > > > > > > You press the "/" key and no slash appears in the editor? Or you load > > > the font and the "/" stops working? > > > > > > The "/" key for example (there may be others that don't display properly) > > works but the character which appears is not "/". > > > > > How do you load the font, using "setfont" from the command line or by > > > modifying configuration files? > > > > I run setupcon (under Debian Sid) and it reads a config file > > in /etc/defaults/setupcon.conf. It has a line in it which allows you to > > load a > > font directly. I load cp850-8x16 and have the "/" problem. It does display > > line > > characters correctly however. Maybe I need to load a translate table ?? > > No, because cp850-8x16 has the right table built in. But if Debian's > scripts load a table designed for a different font, these kind to problems > can happen. > > If you use tables, assuming your filesystem is ISO-8859-1 encoded, you > should load 8859-1_to_uni.trans as console translation table and cp850.uni > as the font unicode map. The suggestions worked. I found the right combination and now the drawing characters are there and FP runs smoothly. Thanks again for FPC - great compiler---great support! Cheers Frank -- Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal