Escape sequence for codepage switch

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Sat May 24 16:11:00 GMT 2003


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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