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Authored by imp on Sat, Nov 2, 4:33 PM.
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Only the gfx-enabled boot loader supports unicode. Otherwise, we have to
use the old cons25 / ibmpc upper code page drawing characters. Check to
see if we have the gfx.term_drawbox function. If we do, we support the
unicode drawing characters. If we don't, then we have an older loader
that doesn't support it *OR* we have the reduced function, text-only
boot loader. Either way, we need to use the old graphics characters.

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imp requested review of this revision.Sat, Nov 2, 4:33 PM

Tested successfully on a laptop: first, running stable/14-n269448-4e8444d5750a, then running main-n273387-bb8b3b174118.

Update to move these knowledge into core.hasUnicode() in case
other issues like this crop up, or in case we export this knowledge
more directly.

better comment
also remove comment from where we create old bindings:
with this new setup they aren't relevant.

emaste added inline comments.
stand/lua/core.lua
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This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Sat, Nov 2, 10:03 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

Thank you for coming up with the solution. I can confirm that it fixes the issue for sc(4). Please don't hesitate to push it, preferably shortly.
Edit:
Wow.... already committed. Impressive timings!