ANSI graphics over telnet

[Phillip Susi]

When you switch to a text console ( ctrl-alt-F1 ) isn't it using the 
character maps provided by the bios?  That is, assuming you have not 
replaced them with consolechars or something. 

As for the font in X, I downloaded a .pcf font that claims it should 
support the high ASCII chars and put it in /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc, 
and ran mkfontdir and rebooted even.  The new font does not show up in 
the font lists anywhere.  What more do I need to do for it to be recognized?



Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:08:12PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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>The problem is in fact the font, and not telnet.  The console uses an
>international font as well, rather than one with IBM graphics characters in
>the expected places.  You were on the right track trying to get the font
>intsalled.
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