On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 23:27 -0400, Darryl Seamans wrote: > Hello all you Fedora users.....I have a program that uses high-bit > ASCII to display a text-mode game under Linux. In the style of Scott > Miller's KROZ series, it displays all manner of ASCII characters > (>Chr(127)) and they come out fine under Slackware in a text console (once > I setfont the right fonts). When compiled and run under Fedora Core 5, > however, the display is messed up with lots of red blocks all over the > screen instead of the high bit ASCII. 'Tisn't "ASCII", so you'd need to set a console mode that actually matches what you believe is ASCII (8-bit text of *some* sort, but *not* "ASCII"), or use unicode properly to draw the same symbols. Unicode has drawing glyphs, too. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
