Re: Documentation - I see squares
Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:
> John Foster <johnf@mars.nettrek.net.au> writes:
[snip]
> You're reading an ISO-8859-1 (8-bit) document with `less' in it's 7-bit
> mode.
[snip]
> In either case, your display has to support 8-bit characters, and show
> them meaningfully. `xterm' can handle it. I haven't checked the
> console (I'm sitting on a Solaris box right now)
In my experience it doesn't always do a wonderful job, since it
doesn't have all the characters needed (which might be the original
problem, actually). This can be fixed by doing something like:
$ setfont -u lat1.uni lat1-16.psf
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