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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

1489.0. "Term Emu char set changed" by MORIN::EXTON (Glass: for raising the spirits) Tue Sep 26 1989 11:13

    Can anyone help me with a problem which our LAVC is having?
    
    In terminal emulator sessions, for the last few weeks, the character
    set seems to have changed to a font similar to the 'standard' font, but
    with very slightly squarer characters. This is itself is OK, but this
    character set does not include the VT100 line drawing characters.
    
    What gives?
    
    We are running VMS V5.1 with V1.0 DECwindows. Machines are a mix of
    VS-II, GPX and 3500's with a Q5 boot node.
    
    Mail (larvae::exton) or notes for any further info.
    
    Cheers,
    Malcolm
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1489.1Character encoding mismatch?HANNAH::MESSENGERBob MessengerWed Sep 27 1989 17:5416
Re: .0

Check your system resource files to make sure you aren't redefining
bigFontSetName and littleFontSetName.

There is a known problem in directing output from a V1 client to a V2
server: the character encodings changed in the font files, so the VT100
line drawing characters aren't where the V1 DECterm expects them to be.
This shouldn't be happening in your case because all your systems are
running DECwindows V1.  Just to make sure, you might try displaying some
characters from the technical character set; if they're displayed as VT100
line drawing characters then you've hit the bug (for whatever reason).

				-- Bob
1489.2No joy yet...MORIN::EXTONGlass: for raising the spiritsThu Sep 28 1989 07:2017
    Hmmm...
    
    I checked decw$system_defaults:*.dat for bigfontset... the only matches
    were in vue$defaults.dat. These definitions were however the same as
    another machine's upon which there is no problem.
    
    I'm not sure how to get the tech char set, so haven't tried that.
    
    Further probing shows that the line drawing set is OK when a term emu
    is customised for both big and condensed fonts but not for the normal
    set.
    
    Where else can I look?
    
    Cheers,
    Malcolm
1489.3Bad font file?HANNAH::MESSENGERBob MessengerThu Sep 28 1989 16:0116
Re: .2

If the big and condensed fonts are OK but the normal font is not, then it
sounds like you've got a problem with that particular font.  Look in
decw$syscommon:[sysfont.decw.user_75dpi] and
decw$syscommon:[sysfont.decw.user_100dpi] to make sure you don't have a
private copy of a font, and check the creation dates of the terminal*.decw$font
fonts in decw$syscommon:[sysfont.decw.75dpi] and
decw$syscommon:[sysfont.decw.100dpi].  It would also be interesting to know
whether the bold and double high normal fonts have this problem.

Here are some Greek characters from the technical character set (extract tt:
to see them): )>abcpqr.

				-- Bob