leadacid44
Technical User
Hey All, first time caller, long time listener. 
I've found myself in an interesting situation. I recently wrote a series of KSH scripts for our AIX 7.1 systems that use some 'pretty' UTF-8 characters, like these:
What I discovered, unfortunately, was that these characters don't display on the graphical console. Telnet/SSH, sure. IBM 3151?, sure. But on lft0, nope. I get this: (Captured from KVM on the console of a test system)
Now, I understand that the lft0 is using the ISO8859-1 font, which doesn't include these glyphs. However, when you run SMIT, or run NMON, it DOES display these style characters:
Is there a way to display these style characters (easily)? Or would I have to rewrite my scripts in some kind of C program calling graphics libraries?
Thanks!
I've found myself in an interesting situation. I recently wrote a series of KSH scripts for our AIX 7.1 systems that use some 'pretty' UTF-8 characters, like these:
Code:
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║ Disk Drive Mirror Utility ║
║ Main Menu ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────╢
What I discovered, unfortunately, was that these characters don't display on the graphical console. Telnet/SSH, sure. IBM 3151?, sure. But on lft0, nope. I get this: (Captured from KVM on the console of a test system)

Now, I understand that the lft0 is using the ISO8859-1 font, which doesn't include these glyphs. However, when you run SMIT, or run NMON, it DOES display these style characters:

Is there a way to display these style characters (easily)? Or would I have to rewrite my scripts in some kind of C program calling graphics libraries?
Thanks!