[OS X TeX] DOS EXTENDED ASCII
Eldon Lytle
relampus at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 25 22:58:22 CET 2008
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" â
> 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,
> 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 â,
> 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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