TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: rberrypi
to: ALL
from: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
date: 2021-02-12 21:50:00
subject: Re: LXTerm to accept ANSI

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:21:16 -0500, "Mayayana" 
declaimed the following:

>"Flavio Bessa"  wrote
>
>|
>| I was trying to run Mystic, but it seems that the LXTerm is not very much
>| friendly to ANSI character codes. Is there a way to tweak it?
>|
>
>   Is there a reason to think the Pi has codepages?
>You'd need that, and you'd need to set the local
>codepage, in order to use ANSI. I thought that
>was only on Windows.
>
 When I see someone mention "ANSI codes", I presume they mean something
from
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_(Control_Sequence_Introduce
r)_sequences>

 M$ Windows did not support ANSI codes until sometime in Win10
(primarily to allow the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" to handle common
terminal controls).


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