Thanks. Digging around, I found a better way to phrase my question:
"how to display the non-printable (e.g. characters with ASCII values less than 32 or greater than 127) as distinct symbols instead of small rectangles that are indistinguishable?" I used standard fonts like Courier/Courier New for the display and nothing specially installed for J. What confuses me is that Wordpad is able to substitute something using Courier New while NotePad (and hence J's Session Manager?) is not able to do so. Probably goes back all the way to the type of edit control that is used here. Any clues? Yuva On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Dan Bron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yuvaraj Athur Raghuvir asked: > > What should I do to get the non-ascii characters represented other > > than boxes in the J Session Manager to allow for some visual debugging > > clues? > > You'll need to install a font that provides glyphs for these characters. > Then you need to configure the Session Manager to use this font. > > 1. To see what font you were using on your old machine, go to > Edit>Configure>Display and look in the Display Font field. > 2. Install this font on your new machine (if it isn't already). > 3. Copy the contents of the Display Font field from the old machine into > the same field on the new machine. > > There is some old APL font out there that has both box-drawing chars and > glyphs for control characters, like > > ASCII # GLYPH > ------- ----- > 0 N > U > L > > 1 S > O > H > > 12 F > F > > But I can't find it now. > > > -Dan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
