Re: High ASCII??

Kirk Bauer (kirk@kaybee.org)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:10:31 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, David Fries wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:37:28PM -0500, Kirk Bauer wrote:
> > I recently logged into a Telnet BBS, and I was rudely reminded
> > that Linux will not properly display 8-bit ASCII text.
> >
> > Isn't there some way I can change things so that my machine
> > will be able to display the full 8-bit ASCII character set
> > so that ANSI art will look like it should?
>
> Try and echo this back to your screen before you look at that again.
> ^[[11m
> ^[[10m to get it back
>
> just do something like
>
> echo (control-v control-[)[11m

Yeah, I knew about that, but BBS's don't tend to send the proper
control code every time it sends high-ascii characters ;)

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