I'm trying to figure out how to created and load a "soft character set"
into a vt220 terminal. These documents:
https://vt100.net/shuford/terminal/dec_vt220_codes.txt, and
https://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECDLD.html, seem to talk about how to do
it, but I don't follow this well. I'm guessing the fonts are made up of
escape sequences. Then I guess they are loaded by simply printing them to
the terminal. If that's the case, where are the examples of such
sequences?
Playing around with vttest, there's an option to "Test Soft Character
Sets" in the "VT220 Tests" menu. But I get the error message "You did
not
specify a font-file with the -f option". Where can I find examples of
that file?
Putting these together, I'm guessing what vttest wants is a file
containing sequences described in those two documents. So, where do I go
from here?
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