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For people used to playing NetHack on DOS/Windows and therefore used to the IBMGraphics feature, it can be a bit jarring to use the DECGraphics (low ASCII only) style, which doesn't distinguish between many dungeon features. Simply adding OPTIONS=IBMGraphics to ~/.nethackrc usually produces garbled output and there seems to be no reliable way to get IBMGraphics working. So here's another way to get IBM-like graphics.

First, you need to have a version of NetHack with Unicode support. And your shell needs UTF-8 support, which is fairly common nowadays. I recommend the version from nethack.alt.org, not only for the Unicode support but for the many other helpful features it has. Then, just add the following to your ~/.nethackrc file, replacing any OPTIONS=IBMGraphics or OPTIONS=DECGraphics lines: