ANSI graphics over telnet

[Phillip Susi]

I was messing around last night with a telnet accessible BBS and some 
old door games that use ANSI graphics.  Many of the high ASCII 
characters did not display correctly.  I looked around online and a page 
sugested installing a specific font into X that has those characters, 
because it said most X fonts do not contain the high ASCII image maps. 
I followed the instructions but can't seem to get the font installed 
correctly, but I don't think that is the problem anyhow.

I tried using a plain VGA 25 line text console terminal ( tty1 ) for the 
telnet session and the problem existed there as well.  The VGA video 
bios should contain the correct high ASCII glyphs so this should work 
just fine, so this leads me to believe that somehow the telnet client is 
mangling the high ASCII characters, possibly with string localization.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?