On Apr 10, 2015, at 3:59 AM, Rich Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: >
> "Latin-US (DOS)" is the system-supplied name for CP437, so that would be the > correct character set to use. It's not guaranteed that any given font will > have the correct glyphs to display the corresponding Unicode characters, but > I would assume that any of the system-supplied fonts would. > So, then, what constitutes "without success"? > R. Hi Rich, "Latin-US (DOS)" is not shown under "File/ Reopen Using Encoding". Only "Western (ISO Latin 1)", "Western (ISO Latin 9)" and "Western (Windows Latin 1)" are included there. If I open a text document in BBEdit, use the status bar at the bottom of the window, and choose "Other" in the encoding list there, then I am shown a longer list of encodings, among which is included "Latin-US (DOS)", which I can then select for that specific document. However, as I noted earlier, from my research into this -- and web scrounging -- it seems that very few fonts actually contain the full CP437 set of high ASCII characters. I only found three of them: ASCII.ttf dos437 Modern DOS 437 All three of the above fonts contain the full set of CP437 high ASCII characters. Last month I installed all three of these fonts via the Font Book app. In the OS X Terminal app, in my chosen theme -- Homebrew -- I can use any one of those three fonts, and PC-ANSI graphics will display properly when I visit my BBS, or any other BBS. "ASCII.ttf" definitely works the best of the three for me, in conjunction with other adjustments that I make in my Homebrew settings. However, as I explained earlier, if I open one of my ANSI graphics files in BBEdit, and choose any of those three fonts, along with the "Latin-US (DOS)" encoding, or any of the others that I mentioned, the high ASCII characters do not display properly. In other words, when I say "without success" I mean that I do not see these special characters, which, as you know, are what is used to draw PC-ANSI graphics for BBSes, such as mine. I see garbage instead: Also of note is the fact that control-left bracket -- which is used to make the little arrow that is in front of PC-ANSI color codes -- cannot be used in BBEdit either. When I type that key combination. Nothing happens, and no symbol appears in the document. I was really hoping that I could do this in BBEdit, because right now I use the Public Address BBS software -- which has a built-in PC-ANSI graphics viewer -- to make all of the graphics for my BBS. As with my BBS software -- Hermes II -- I am forced to run this in a virtual environment using SheepShaver. My vision has been rather poor all of my life, and even more so now that I am in my sixties, so making ANSI graphics in that environment places a real strain on my eyes. I was hoping that by using BBEdit, I could use a larger size font, and thus reduce the strain on my eyes when I make my graphics. In fact, in everyday use, I keep BBEdit set to 24-point Monaco font, because it is large and clear without serifs. Regards, Bill Kochman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
