Re: mutt to show hi-bit chars once & for all? -- solved
An interesting discovery, one that basically solves
my 8-bit character problems:
I cut-and-pasted into a vim text-file the following chart from
<http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/> :
Testing LC_CTYPE with isprint():
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ #
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ õ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯
° ± © ©¯ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ © º » 1 4 1 2 3 4 ¿
À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
®¢ Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö ¥ Ø Ù Ú Û Ü ¯ ® ß
à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
©£ ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü © ÿ
I noticed that in place of some of the characters were boxes instead of
the real 8-bit character (for example most of the characters in the
third and fourth rows up from the bottom were boxes).
Wanting to look more closely at the characters that _were_ displayed
correctly, I went up to the "Session" menu of my term program
(my term program is MacSSh version 2.1fc3 -- I'm still running MacOS
8.1, believe it or not, on a vintage-1998 Mac beige G3 -- yes, I know,
time to upgrade)
(which term program I use on my G3 Mac here at home to ssh into my
(NetBSD) ISP where I access and run mutt and vim),
and I changed the fontsize (something that I normally never, ever do) of
the Monaco font that i use from 12-point to 14-point, and *presto* --
suddenly every single character in the chart displayed correctly.
So I checked all the different fontsizes, and all of them _except_ for
9-point and 12-point
(and of course _that's_ the fontsize -- 12-point -- that I've been using
for the last n years)
showed *all of* the characters correctly. Of course, the size that
I use is the one that doesn't display. However I'm still not sure if
it's my MacSSH implementation that's at fault, or if it's those
2 fontsizes of the Monaco font *on my Mac itself* that are missing some
of the characters.
My solution, for now at least, is to change my MacSSH fontsize setting
from 12-point to 11-point and/or 13-point. What a wild goose chase.
What i'd like to do now is find a way to get the right 12-point Monaco
font, one that has all the 8-bit characters included, as I'm so used to
viewing that size in all my ssh sessions.
--
// rj@xxxxxxxxx //
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy
who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those
boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at
high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without
one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. -Joseph Romm, Washington