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Re: Escape sequence for codepage switch
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Micha Nelissen <mdvpost at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:11:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Escape sequence for codepage switch
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Micha Nelissen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Added escape sequence to let programs switch the current codepage to enable
> linedrawing characters. These work only if the termcap entry is changed,
> adding 'ae=\E[z' and 'as=\E[y' capabilities. For use of cygwin in Command
> Prompt.
>
> Micha.
Micha,
How does this interact with the 'codepage:' setting in the CYGWIN
environment variable? Does the above make this setting obsolete?
Igor
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