FP on Raspberry Pi (pi-topOS) screen garbled
lazarus / 1-Linux

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PascalBill · 2023-07-07 16:40

I installed FreePascal on a Raspberry Pi running pi-topOS using the
following commands:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo apt-get install fpc

When I try to run fp, it comes up in LXTerminal.

The IDE menu bar looks correct, but the rest of the screen contains
what I believe are non-printable characters used to draw the
boundaries of the editor.

I can create, compile and run a program successfully.

Is there a font with the "PC" character set I should be using instead?

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mika · 2023-07-07 18:55

Set your terminal code page to utf8 or 850 or 866.

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PascalBill · 2023-07-07 23:00

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

For anyone wanting to follow my footsteps, I used
https://beebom.com/how-enable-utf-8-support-linux/

In step 2 of "Setting the Correct Locale (UTF-8)" the spacebar must to
be used to "select" "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8"

Clicking with the mouse did not work for me.

I develop programming tools and utility programs for DOS and Windows
and hope to bring some of them to the Raspberry PI in particular and
LINUX in general...