Mike wrote:
> Although you want easy-to-use and nice looking box drawing characters,
> you must realize that people using Kana/Kanji charsets, KOI8-R
> charsets, ISO-8859-* charsets, etc. may not have access to box drawing
> characters -- they are inherently nonportable. If you can't handle
> the appearance degradation that results from use of the ncurses box
> drawing functions (or those present in higher level text-widget
> libraries), I suggest you look at the "fat line" (background-color
> based) drawing used by e.g. the "dialog" package.
smitty, the terminal-based version of AIX's system management tool,
uses dashes (0x2d), pipes (0x7c), and plus signs (0x2b), like this:
+----------------------------------------+
| Press ENTER to continue or PF3 to exit |
+----------------------------------------+
Equal signs (0x3d) might be used instead:
+========================================+
| Press ENTER to continue or PF3 to exit |
+========================================+
I have seen other programs attempt to use the box-drawing
characters instead, with mixed results. They're nice glyphs if you
can get 'em [and you can get 'em if you try] but if you incorrectly
assume you have them the results can be terrible. You can always
query the current locale to try to determine whether the box-drawing
characters are supported.
Cheers,
Justin T. Fries
Raleigh, North Carolina
(919) 254-1422 TL 444-1422
Email: justinf@us.ibm.com
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