What if you set your text encoding to one of the other Western encodings? On Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 5:08:14 PM UTC-7 Bill Kochman wrote:
> Hello Folks, > > I recently resurrected — probably for the fourth time — my PC-ANSI-based > BBS, which I first began running in 1993. > > So, I am remaking all of my ANSI screens from screenshots I took back in > 2015, which is when I last ran my board. > > My question is the following: > > Can BBEdit properly display what seems to be an older version of the Code > Page 437 ANSI characters? I am talking about the different shaded blocks, > bars, lines, etc., that us older guys used to use to manually make our ANSI > screens. > > Sadly, if I paste an ANSI screen in a BBEdit text file, all of the ANSI > characters are just gibberish. I seem to recall that a number of years ago, > I could actually see the ANSI characters, exactly as you would see them > displayed on a BBS. on your computer or in a telnet client. > > To clarify, if I copy and paste Code Page 437 ANSI characters from the > Wikipedia website, or from an ANSI art program, they do appear properly in > a BBEdit document, like this: > > ▼ ▲ ◄ ► ┼ « π ‹ › ‡ » ∏ ◊ « » ≡ ≈ ° > > ] [ ↨ ↑ ↓ → ← ↔ ☺ ☻ ♥ ☼ § ◙ ○ ◘ > > ░ ▒ ▓ > > █ ▄ ■ ▀ ▌ ▐ ▬ . · • > > Γ │ ┤ ├ ⌐ ¬ ┌ ┐ └ ┘ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ - – _ > > ╡ ╞ ╧ ╨ ╤ ╥ ╢ ╟ ╫ ╪ ╓ ╖ ╒ ╕ ╙ ╜ ╒ ╛ ╘ > > ╣ ╠ ║ ╔ ╗ ╚ ╝ ╩ ╦ ═ ╬ > > > However, if I copy and paste the very same characters from my actual BBS, > they look like this: > > » Õ º ∫ … ª À > > > > ⁄ ø ƒ ≥ ¿ Ÿ ¥ ¬ > > > > € ≤ ∞ › fi ‹ fl ˛ ˘ > > > So it seems that my BBS may possibly use an older flavor of ANSI > characters which BBEdit does not recognize, or at least does not know how > to properly display. > > In fact, if I try to use the first group of ANSI characters above in my > BBS, it won’t even let me, and it just beeps. Yes, my BBS is OLD, from the > 80s and the 90s. :) > > Kind regards, > Kind regards, > > > [image: graphical-email-signature 400x185.jpg] > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/10ba38d4-f8a9-48fd-8cc8-a32835df72d6n%40googlegroups.com.
