[OS X TeX] DOS EXTENDED ASCII

[Eldon Lytle]

Thanks for your patient reply (and, of course, the
definition for Basic). I'll be working through your
suggestions.
Eldon

 
--- Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:

> 
> Am 24.02.2008 um 23:32 schrieb Eldon Lytle:
> 
> > I HAVE A CHARACTER DISPLAY PROBLEM:
> 
> Does the computer exist or a backup? In an
> autoexec.bat or config.sys  
> file you could find a Cope Page setting ...
> 
> If not, then experimenting could help. Mac OS X
> comes with an utility  
> to convert from one encoding to another one. It's
> called "iconv" –  
> obviously not up-to-date since all lower-case! In
> Terminal you could  
> type:
> 
> 	iconv -l | egrep 'CP[0-9][0-9][0-9][^0-9]' | sort
> 
> It will name all those Code Pages with a three digit
> number, for  
> example:
> 
> 	437 CP437 IBM437 CSPC8CODEPAGE437
> 	850 CP850 IBM850 CSPC850MULTILINGUAL
> 
> All names on one line are synonyms, so it's OK to
> use any one name  
> from such a line. In a second Terminal you then
> could invoke:
> 
> 	iconv -t UTF8 -f 437 «your file» > «output
> file»
> 
> The symbols «your file» and «output file» mean:
> substitute the  
> whole quote with a real file name.
> 
> You would need to invoke this line as long as the
> output is not  
> correct by changing the value of the -f(rom)
> encoding and as long as  
> there still choices left. You can create another set
> of modern Code  
> Pages by invoking:
> 
> 	iconv -l | egrep 'CP[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' | sort
> 
> 
> > ╒ ╟ ╡ ╢ ▐ ░
> ▓
> 
> These are probably:
> 
> 	U+2552 BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND RIGHT DOUBLE
> â•’,
> 	U+255F BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND RIGHT
> SINGLE â•Ÿ,
> 	U+2561 BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE
> â•¡,
> 	U+2562 BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE
> â•¢,
> 	U+2590 RIGHT HALF BLOCK ▐,
> 	U+2591 LIGHT SHADE â–‘,
> 	U+2593 DARK SHADE â–“.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
> Basic, n.:
> 	A programming language. Related to certain social
> diseases in
> 	that those who have it will not admit it in polite
> company.
> 
> 
> 
> >  
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