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Getting UTF8 characters in the lft0 console?

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leadacid44

Technical User
Jan 20, 2011
13
US
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:
Code:
╔══════════════════════════════════════╗
║      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)
Picture0001_uu6gai.png


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:
Picture0002_d7xb0i.png


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!
 
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