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

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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:17:12 -0400

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:47:00 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:

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> Lew Pitcher wrote:
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> | David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
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> | | How to get them? Is there really anything in all that good reading
> | | that will explicitly say? Maybe. Very helpful. daveA
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> | 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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> Followup: A quick Google check (using the terms "CP437 +X11 +linux")
> turned up several sources for both X and Postscript versions of these
> fonts. Additionally, a quick 'locate cp437' on my local Linux system
> turned up X11 fonts for cp437 already installed as part of XFree86.
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> So, all the OP has to do is decide /which/ characterset he wants to use,
> install a font (for the lack of a better word) that implements that
> characterset, and use the font management tools already available to him
> in console or X to use that font and characterset for his output.

Thanks! locate cp437 shows all kinds of stuff. Sometimes the problem
is just not knowing where to start. daveA

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