Code Page 437

[J.P. Larocque]

Hello,

I'm trying to set up Falken, a BBS program for Linux. It excessively uses
"ANSI graphics," in other words, ASCII text graphics done with characters from
the Code Page 437 character set, with ANSI coloring. CP-437 is the same
character set DOS uses and sometimes known as the IBM PC character set.

My problem is Linux seems to use the Latin-1 character set, both on the
console, and in xterms. Therefore ANSI graphics look corrupted, in both
Falken, as well as viewing ANSI files (*.ans) and calling dial-up BBSs that
make use of CP-437 (as most do) from minicom. How can I either start an xterm
with the CP-437 character set, or set the console font for CP-437?

As for console fonts, I can't find anything suitable in
/usr/share/consolefonts/. Could anyone suggest a place to download CP-437
console fonts?

As for xterms, I know about the '-fn' option, but I don't know how to find
what fonts I have available in X. As I'm sure you all can tell, I don't know
much about X. =) I would certainly prefer finding a way to use CP-437 in
an xterm than in the console, as I mostly use X.

DOSEMU's 'xdos' uses the correct font but I don't know if the font is part of
X--and therefore accessible to xterm--or proprietary to xdos.

I should note that I still use slink. It's hard to upgrade when your Internet
connection is a 14.4kbps modem.

Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can reply with information.

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[Damon Muller]

Hi JP,

I have a font that I think is what you are after, called VGA. It's
actually a lot more readable that a lot of the standard X fonts, IMHO,
but of course doesn't display all of the characters properly (I used to
use it as my font for mutt in an Eterm).

On my system, it's:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf

if you do an xlsfonts|grep vga, you may already have it. I seem to
recall having found it on the net somewhere originally, so you could try
searching on google.

This is only an X font, I don't know of any equivalent for the console.

HTH,

damon

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[Shaul Karl]

I am not an expert but as a start point I would try (for bash)
export TERM=ansi
There also might be more appropriate entries, take a look at the terminfo docs.
Doesn't the kernel have some CODEPAGE_437 stuff?

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