Thanks for the info from “The OldSchool PC Font Resource” site. You may
possibly be on to something. Who knows. But, whatever the case may be, and
regardless of why Hermes rejects the ANSI codes I try to paste into my screens,
as I said previously, it just forces me to make my screens the way
This from the "THE OLDSCHOOL PC FONT
RESOURCE", https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/#cp437_text, may
give a clue as to the difficulty you're having:
"CP437 can't really be mapped to Unicode in a simple 1:1 manner. The
culprits are characters 00h-1Fh and 7Fh, which can be interpreted
Thank you to everyone who has responded to my inquiry. I appreciate it. As some
of you have suggested, I had already used the encoding menu in the bottom left
side of the BBEdit window, even before I wrote into the list. Doing so does not
help.
As I mentioned earlier, the fact that my BBS
You can change the encoding of a text file within BBEdit. If you look at
the bottom status bar of the document window, you should see a drop-down
menu where you can select a different encoding. You might need to click on
"Other..." to select from a larger list. For code page 437, I think the
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
I expect what is happening here is that what you copied and pasted from
Wikipedia is not Code Page 437 but rather is Unicode for the same glyphs. The
Unicode glyphs would display properly. What you're copying that's not working
is probably not carrying the metadata saying what code page it
Have you tried to use iconv (command line tool included with MacOS) to
convert your code page 437 character files to Unicode character files?
Once converted then test the conversion's display using one of the several
fixed width fonts to see if that font has defined character renderings for
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
