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Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters

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Brian Gregory wrote:
> On 04/05/2024 19:29, Newyana2 wrote:
>> On 5/4/2024 2:05 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
>>> A while back I was trying to fine a way to attach a 5-1/4" floppy
>>> to a computer. That was not doable but I managed to get a computer
>>> from year 2000 running and low and behold the files I needed were
>>> on the harddisk so
>>> getting the files is solved. I am not sure what I used to write them
>>> but I
>>> created things using ASCII characters. But the ASCII characters do
>>> not show
>>> up as double lines etc. Is there a font I can use that will show
>>> these characters as ASCII and not the funny things they are now?
>>> Right now trying
>>> Libre Office. Open to any suggestions.
>>>
>>
>>  Do you mean ANSI characters? ASCII is the basic keyboard
>> characters in Enlgish, which is also the lower half of ANSI and the
>> first 128 characters of UTF-8. ANSI is a one-byte character
>> set that's ASCII up to 127 and depends on the local codepage
>> for 128 to 255. Most standard fonts should display those
>> characters.
>
> He probably means the old code page 437 box characters you had in DOS
> in the USA.

This is exactly what I meant.  I entered them by number.  I believe I 
created these files in 1989 on a Tandy 1200A.

> You can make Notepad++ convert them to their UTF-8 equivalents, then
> you can just use a mono spaced font like Courier or Consolas and that
> should be it.
>
> First tell Notepad++ that your original is Western European > OEM-US
> and then tell it to convert to UTF-8 and then that file will look
> right in any Windows program.

Yout system works and then I can save the converted file and open it Libre 
Office for formatting and saving.

Thanks.

<Bill> 

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Font To Show ASCII Characters "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net> - 2024-05-04 10:05 -0800
  Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters Newyana2 <Newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-05-04 14:29 -0400
    Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-05-04 19:56 +0100
      Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net> - 2024-05-04 15:25 -0800
  Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters Barney Hill <bhill@nospam.invalid> - 2024-05-04 22:29 +0100
    Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net> - 2024-05-04 15:40 -0800
  Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-05-04 19:42 -0400
  Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2024-05-05 07:53 +0200

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