Re: How to display extended ASCII characters? (boxes, lines, etc)

From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:36:22 -0400

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David Raleigh Arnold wrote:

| On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:37:09 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:
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|>Stuart P wrote:
|>| For some reason, the extended ASCII characters past 127 will not appear
|>| (at all) in my Linux console.
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|>For once and for all time, there is NO SUCH THING as "extended ASCII", and
|>there are /NO/ ASCII characters beyond 0x7F.
|>
|>If you want characters with values greater than 0x7F, then /you DONT want
|>ASCII/
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| He wants some of those dos box characters.

OK, so he wants some characterset other than ASCII. Which characterset?
My guess would be CP437 or CP850

| They are free to use from IBM, but not "free" and not pure enough for GNU.

Nonsense. Both charactersets are supported in Linux console mode, and
that implementation is released as GPL. IIRC, there are GPL X fonts for
CP437 and CP850. I don't know about postscript, but I don't doubt that
GPL fonts for CP437 and CP850 exist there as well.

| How to get them? Is there really anything in all that good reading
| that will explicitly say? Maybe. Very helpful. daveA

Not meaning to be crude, but he should STFW. He can probably find
appropriate CP437 and CP850 fonts through Google or SourceForge or
Freshmeat.

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Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Enterprise Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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