Jeff
justinf@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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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