8-bit ASCII for comm.

[A.E. Brouwer]

gav...@pesach.jct.ac.il (Prof. Gavrie Philipson) writes:

: Is there any way to display 8-bit ASCII on the Linux console?
: When I call PC-based BBSes from Linux, I just get rubbish
: for >127 characters.

Well, first of all, there is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII,
and if there were, then no doubt it would not be what you need.
You want IBM code page 437 or something similar, I think.
Try to give the command echo -e '\033(U' before calling
that BBS.

[Prof. Gavrie Philipson]

Hi,

Is there any way to display 8-bit ASCII on the Linux console?

This is important for communications (BBSes sending 8-bit character codes).
How can this be done? When I call PC-based BBSes from Linux, I just get rubbish
for >127 characters.

From the manual page of minicom, it seems that it can display 8-bit ASCII
(i.e., the standard PC character set.), but when trying this I get wrong
characters.

Thanks,

--
Gavrie Philipson

[Dag Asheim]

>I think the IBM character set would be better than a character set
>with missing characters! Is this just a few, or something like 50?

But I would rather have an incomplete ISO8859-1 (Latin 1), than the
IBM character set. I guess that most europeans (except, perhaps,
people from Great Britain) agrees with me.

Besides Latin 1 is the standard character set on (at least) Unix and
Windows. Also it would be stupid with one character set in console
mode, and a totally different one in X11.

I don't know the exact number of characters missing, but they haven't
bothered me yet. Followups to comp.os.linux.misc.

Dag

[Robert Lockhart [Rob]]

Prof. Gavrie Philipson (gav...@pesach.jct.ac.il) wrote:
: Hi,

: Thanks,

: --
: Gavrie Philipson

Would not you need some sort of ANSI driver / emulator - the equivalent of
ANSI.SYS in the DOS environment?
--

Rob Lockhart lock...@sps1.phys.vt.edu
Virginia Tech Physics Department

[Rob Malouf]

In article <CxtG...@itex.jct.ac.il>,

To get the PC line drawing characters to come out right on the Linux
console, use the command:

echo "^[[11m"

where ^[ is "escape". This will turn off the default ISO translation
table and let you get at the IBM character set.

Rob Malouf
mal...@csli.stanford.edu

[Albert Cahalan]

>>>>> "JM" == Johan Myreen <j...@snakemail.hut.fi> writes:

JM> There is no such thing as 8 bit ASCII. ASCII is 7-bit only, by definition.

OK, IBM extended ASCII. Whatever.

JM> I guess you want to display the standard PC character set. The Linux
JM> console uses the ISO8859-1 (Latin 1) character set by default(*), but you

JM> (*) actually a subset of it, since the PC doesn't have all the characters
JM> in ROM, but you can fix this too with a loadable font.

I think the IBM character set would be better than a character set
with missing characters! Is this just a few, or something like 50?

--

Albert Cahalan
a...@meceng.coe.neu.edu