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Re: Font To Show ASCII Characters

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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.

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.

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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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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