[kde-linux] konsole/bash/htop use bold characters and make characters unreadables

[Duncan]

christophe posted on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:35:58 +0200 as excerpted:

> OK
> apparently, maybe i haven't explained correctly my problem. Is there
> anything i should rephrase ?

Your description was good, and I see the screenshots now too.  But I'm not 
sure anyone here has a good answer.

The bold attribute you mention is probably an ANSI sequence (mostly color, 
but a few other attributes like underline, etc, are available as well, and 
bright and flash, either one of which is sometimes interpreted as bold).  
One alternative might be to do a STDOUT wrapper that strips these 
sequences.  Or you could try choosing a different font.

FWIW, I don't have nVidia here and won't, since they don't cooperate with 
the freedomware folks, releasing specs or freedomware drivers.  I've not 
seen the issue on the Radeon on my main machine or the Intel on my netbook, 
but that could be simply due to the font I use (an old one that used to 
ship with konsole for kde3, that's very readable and that I like very 
much).  Unfortunately the font is named console font, making it impossible 
to google, but I could possibly post it somewhere if you want to try it.  
The license should be good for that, since it did used to ship with kde3 
konsole.

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