Subj : Re: Box-drawing characters 182 and 199 absent in syncdraw
To   : Anton Shepelev
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Jan 10 2023 07:39:00

-=> Anton Shepelev wrote to All <=-

 AS> MRO to Anton Shepelev:

 > > I  beg  everyone's  pardon for this clumsy intrusion
 > > into unknown territory, but this is all I can do  to
 > > contact  the  developers  and  experienced  users of
 > > `syncdraw' via NNTP. Its ALT+F1..F10 palettes do not
 > > seem  to  contain such pseudographical characters as
 > > ## 182 and 199 in terms of  CP 437,  which  prevents
 > > junctions between vertical double-width and horison-
 > > tal single-width lines.  Are they absent by design?
 >
 > https://i.imgur.com/IibsieP.png

 AS> Many thanks for a direct image link that does  not  lead
 AS> some bloated webpage!

 AS> Ouch -- you  have  font  smoothing  (aka  BlearType) on,
 AS> which is so UnANSIstematic.  Please, take a closer  look
 AS> at the characters in `syncdraw' and in the terminal win-
 AS> dow, for they are different. The ones  in  the  terminal
 AS> are those that I seek, and do not find, in the ANSI edi-
 AS> tor. The ones in `syncdraw' are ## 185 and 204.

Use 'TheDraw' (DOS program).  Pressing Alt-F4 brings up the character 
set you want.



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