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Article: 14094 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: RedHat 8.0 Linux and K-95 Character Set
Date: 13 Feb 2003 15:22:01 -0500
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In article <RWH2a.19926$Mh3.5191413@twister.nyc.rr.com>,
Jeffrey Altman [Road Runner NYC] <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
: Ron Heiby wrote:
: > Hi! With the release of Red Hat 8.0, the default for terminal output
: > appears to be set up to be UTF-8. I base this, in part, upon my LANG
: > environment variable being set to "en_us.UTF-8". Among other things, the
: > "man" command seems to be putting out multi-byte characters. An example
: > appears to be (octal) 342 200 220, which I am guessing is supposed to be
: > some kind of dash or minus sign.
: >
: > I am logged in to a RH 8.0 system using K-95 2.1.3. My TERM environment
: > variable is "vt320", and my K-95 terminal type is set to "vt320". My K-95
: > character set is set to "utf8".
: >
: > When I run the "man" command, and it wants to display the character
: > described above, on my screen I see a hollow rectangle. What am I doing
: > wrong? Thanks!
:
: The font you are using does not support the specified character.
:
342 200 220 (octal) in UTF-8 translates to U+2010, which is a hyphen in the
General Punctuation Block (2000-206F), where such things as "smart" quotes,
em-dashes, per mil signs, and daggers are gathered.
A quick check of fonts on my PC reveals which ones show this and other
characters in this block:
Andale Mono WT J: All
Andale Mono: Some (but not hyphen)
Courier: Only left and right single quote
Courier New: Some (but not hyphen)
Everson Mono Terminal: All
Fixedsys: Only left and right single quote
Lucida Console: Some (but not hyphen)
System: Only left and right single quote
Terminal: (Not Unicode - shows wrong characters)
Andale Mono WT J is an excellent Unicode fixed-pitch font, so naturally it
does not come free with Windows; you have to buy it from Agfa Monotype.
Everson Mono Terminal (EMT) is distributed with K95 so that our customers
will have some way to view non-CJK characters that are not available in
other fonts.
So use EMT, or buy Andale Mono WT J, or switch your Linux locale.
- Frank