From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24129 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 12:37:22 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 12:37:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 1169 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 1999 12:37:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8912 Received: (qmail 1159 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 12:37:09 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer thoth.mch.sni.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "ZSH workers mailing list" Subject: Something wrong with prompt themes Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:37:06 +0300 Message-ID: <000201bf3fe6$9add8520$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Some prompt themes (e.g. elite) explicitly use characters with 8th bit set. This looks really ugly here - tested on dtterm and console (AT386 terminal - dunno if it specific to SINIX or is in common use) with ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-5 charsets. What are these characters for? I believe, they are for semi-grafic with standard IBM 437 codepage. Unfortunately, you cannot expect everybody to use it. May be, 'prompt -p' or even 'prompt -l' should at least print warning if the theme expects particular character set. Or use style(s) to switch them on/off. Themes may look nicely even without these characters - and users may conditionally switch them on/off depending on current terminal. /andrej