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#50 Pseudographics (window borders, block characters, et al.) hardcoded as CP866

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nobody
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2013-06-13
2013-06-13
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Apparently, biew was never intended to be run on modern Unicode/UTF-8 systems, which is default encoding for vast majority of Linux and BSD systems these days. ASCII symbols for pseudographics in biew are hardcoded for CP866 (looking at biewlib/twin.h), and thus only work in DOS/Windows (OS/2?) and oldskool KOI8-R Linux/Unix consoles with koi8r2cp866 screen mapping.

Meanwhile, Midnight Commander works correctly both in my plain text KOI8-R console (with standard CP866 VGA screenmapping hack) and UTF-8 xterm. I will follow up on this bug further, if/when I have some ideas how to fix (or at least approach) this annoying problem. I wouldn't mind if you get your hands on it before me though. ;-)

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