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Skriven 2013-05-01 04:45:06 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
     Kommentar till en text av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
Ärende: test uhu
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Hey mark!

 ml> i just hate to use some external program to do conversions

Then you should write one better than iconv.  If you do then I'll be happy to
have a looksee and I would recommend using a glibc header(s), although there
are others you could use.  Offhand, without knowing for sure, glibc is the way
to go.  gcc has very little issues with those headers.

 ml> i only need the translation tables that everyone else is using

Feel free to check out /usr/share/i18n/charmaps.  All the good stuff is there
but no IBMPC.  Instead there is a whack of IBM ones, CP's, EBCDIC's, etc.  For
your so-called IBMPC /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/IBM437.gz seems to get it right
near as I can tell from this angle.  It's alias CP437 also works which it
should given it is an alias to that charmap.  :-)

I am not sure about OS/2, but for sure many Windows programmers are using those
same charmaps these days, especially for producing native utf-8 apps for
Windows.  I did find a few gcc ports for OS/2 that follows the same strategy as
the Windows programmers did.  Beats me how well any of that works but I note
they aren't too far behind the curve.

 ml> xterm or linux but changing those didn't make any difference at all

That has happened to me before.  Try changing the font instead.  For the linux
terminal there ought to be a slew of them in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/ or
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ depending on your distribution.  One or more
should work replicating the box drawing characters that mc is looking for. 
Same with xterm except you'll have to use a xorg font instead but there is
likely one that should do the same.  It has been awhile since I have had to do
this but I do know it can be achieved.  Last time I checked LatGrkCyr-12x22 in
a purely linux terminal worked fine with mc.

 ml> you wouldn't use putty anyway since you're not on a windows
 ml> workstation accessing a *nix box from remote

You got that right.  :-)

That has never happened with me or any machine I have had the pleasure of
working with.  Way back when the earth's crust was still cooling I did have a
386 running 16 bit DOS but that didn't last long despite the fact there was no
putty back then to connect over a POTS modem to *nix boxes.  The protocol of
choice at that time was telnet.  That worked fine but thankfully those days are
far behind us.  No?

Life is good,
Maurice

... that path is sharp as a razor's edge - Katha Upanishad
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