Re: text converted into bar codes - tough reading !!

["Ian D. Stewart" <idstewart@compuvative.com>]

On 2002.05.11 08:57 shamad wrote:
> Ian,
> thanks! Please bear with me but how can I cahnge the font in command
> line
> mode? I'm sure it is very basic but I am (unluckily) style a GUI type
> of
> guy..

Good question!  The changes I made were in Gnome (which only effects 
the GUI).  Only thing I can think of is maybe trying out different TERM 
settings.  Check out /etc/terminfo for a list of installed terminal 
types.

Hopefully, someone who is a little more clueful will respond...


HTH,
Ian
> Thanks - Serge
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian D. Stewart" <idstewart@compuvative.com>
> To: "shamad" <sergemartha@hotmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: text converted into bar codes - tough reading !!
>
>
> > On 2002.05.11 04:31 shamad wrote:
> > > With SID some of the fonts look like bar codes not all
> > > As an eemple in the Gnome Control Center all text in the right
> window
> > > is
> > > readable, in the left window unreadable (bar codes)
> > > Interestingly, if  open a window ( bash.. whatever else) and move
> it
> > > over
> > > the 'bar codes' suddenly they get converted in readble text.
> >
> > I ran into this problem with colored fonts using ISO 10681 (I think
> > that's what it is).  I converted over to 8859-1, and the blocks went
> > away.  Think it might have had something to do with the former being
> a
> > unicode font (i.e., 2 bytes v. one).
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ian
> >
>
>
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