[LINUX5250] Re: xt5250, x5250, fonts (also Screen bleeding)

["Marc-Antoine Ruel" <maruel@xxxxxxxxx>]

The problem happens to be on a windows machine so I guess it's not the same 
problem but I'll look into that (just in case). Windows happens to support 
UTF-8 but it is rarely used so I don't think it is this problem.

M-A

"Dave McKenzie" <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit 
dans le message de news: 1109171160.8020.6.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've had the misalignment problem in xt5250 for many months, since
> upgrading to SuSE Linux 9.1 (I'm currently on 9.2).
>
> I finally found it's related to Unicode and UTF-8.  It looks like xterm
> is interpreting some characters that translate to ASCII codes > x80 as
> Unicode.
>
> In SuSE 9.2 the LANG environment variable is "en_US.UTF-8".  It was
> "en_US" in SuSE 9.0 (in which xt5250 worked OK).
>
> So to turn off the UTF-8 mode, I put this line in xt5250:
>
> LANG=en_US
>
> and added LANG to the export statement.
>
> That fixed the misalignment.  Also, it cleared up the "screen bleeding"
> problem I was seeing.  It was most obvious when doing DSPPFM on a file
> that had bytes that translate to ASCII codes > x80, such as in binary
> and packed fields.  As you roll through the file, parts of the data
> would be misaligned, and after rolling to the next screen, some
> characters would remain where they had been on the previous screen.
>
> But I haven't found how to fix the misalignment when using tn5250 in a
> console.  I see there's a line
>
> CONSOLE_ENCODING="UTF-8"
>
> in /etc/sysconfig/console, so maybe fiddling with that will help.  Or
> maybe some option in setfont.  But I guess that would affect all
> consoles; maybe changes would have to be made in tn5250.  I don't use
> tn5250 in a console so it's not a priority for me.
>
> --Dave