On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:23:22 +0100, David Lazaro Saz wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to find an answer to this question without success. > > Why does bsdinstall(8) use ASCII characters for drawing lines > instead of line drawing characters as the old sysinstall(8) did?
I assume this has to do with a change which happened long time ago. In the past, those characters could be used in text mode (for example by the Midnight Commander) and even in combination with LC settings like de_DE.ISO8859-1. Probably the character sets in /usr/share/syscons/fonts don't support them anymore. I've had success using the fonts directory content from a 4.x system and "transition" it though various later versions, but today I simply accept the inavailability. :-) Because the line drawing characters in the Midnight Commander don't work for me anymore, I use the -a option. Still when run in an X terminal, they are properly displayed. I think to avoid problems, the use of linedrawing characters has been dropped. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
