vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation

[Charles Wilson]

Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:

> In short:
> What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt?


In console, add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable.

In rxvt, use a font that actually contains the box chars -- try "LuconP" 
from here:

http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/

For Xserver fonts, try these:
http://shelluser.net/~giles/bashprompt/xfonts/index.html

--Chuck




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