terminfo

[Andrey Chernov]

On 23.02.2014 17:49, Ed Schouten wrote:
> This terminfo entry is incorrect. It will make ACS work on a standard
> setup where the user has the BIOS CP437 font loaded, but will break
> horribly if a user uses a different character set, like ISO-8859-1.
> 
> There is a reason why syscons displays ASCII characters for ACS box
> drawing, namely that there is no guarantee that the actual font loaded
> into the graphics card has any ACS characters to begin with.

Old syscons was able to displays pseudographics, and several cons25-like
termcap entries exists to correspond ACS for each console font. It is
your emulation which always displays ASCII now, which is step backward.

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