Man page - mapscrn(8)
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MAPSCRN
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
USE
INPUT FORMAT
OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
NAME
mapscrn - load screen output mapping table
SYNOPSIS
mapscrn [ options ] mapfile
DESCRIPTION
The mapscrn command is obsolete - its function is now built-in into setfont. However, for backwards compatibility it is still available as a separate command.
The mapscrn command loads a user defined output character mapping table into the console driver. The console driver may be later put into use user-defined mapping table mode by outputting a special escape sequence to the console device. This sequence is <esc>(K for the G0 character set and <esc>)K for the G1 character set. When the -o option is given, the old map is saved in map.orig.
USE
There are two kinds of mapping tables: direct-to-font tables, that give a font position for each user byte value, and user-to-unicode tables that give a unicode value for each user byte. The corresponding glyph is now found using the unicode index of the font. The command
mapscrn trivial
sets up a one-to-one direct-to-font table where user bytes directly address the font. This is useful for fonts that are in the same order as the character set one uses. A command like
mapscrn 8859-2
sets up a user-to-unicode table that assumes that the user uses ISO 8859-2.
INPUT FORMAT
The
mapscrn
command can read the map in either of two
formats:
1. 256 or 512 bytes binary data
2. two-column text file
Format (1) is a direct image of the translation
table.
The 256-bytes tables are direct-to-font,
the 512-bytes
tables are user-to-unicode tables. Format (2) is used to
fill the
table
as follows: cell with offset mentioned
in the first column is filled with the value mentioned in
the second column. When values larger than 255 occur, or
values are written using the U+xxxx notation, the table is
assumed to be a user-to-unicode table, otherwise it is a
direct-to-font table.
Values in the
file may be specified in one of several
formats:
1. Decimal:
String of decimal digits not starting with
’0’
2. Octal:
String of octal digits beginning with
’0’.
3. Hexadecimal:
String of hexadecimal digits preceded by
"0x".
4. Unicode:
String of four hexadecimal digits preceded
by "U+".
5. Character:
Single character enclosed in single
quotes. (And the binary value is used.) Note that blank,
comma, tab character and ’#’ cannot be specified
with this format.
6. UTF-8 Character:
Single (possibly multi-byte) UTF-8
character, enclosed in single quotes.
Note that control characters (with codes < 32) cannot be re-mapped with mapscrn because they have special meaning for the driver.
OPTIONS
-o , --output = FILE
save the old map to the FILE .
-C , --console = DEV
the console device to be used.
-v , --verbose
be more verbose.
-V , --version
print version number.
-h , --help
print this usage message.
FILES
/usr/share/consoletrans
The default directory for screen mappings.
SEE ALSO
setfont (8)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C)
1993 Eugene G. Crosser
<crosser@pccross.msk.su>
This software and documentation may be distributed
freely.