Subj : Re: ANSI art
To   : Daniel
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jul 31 2025 09:49:33

  Re: Re: ANSI art
  By: Daniel to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Jul 31 2025 01:47 am

 > Yeah, my pi500 can render ansi fine, and as long as I"m on that machine,
 > I can see all the glyphs. But, as I said, I wish it were easier to
 > render ansi on linux terminal. Even on my pi500, I may load wayfire or
 > whatever it's called whenever i need to do something major on the
 > web. Otherwise, I'm in the CLI exclusively.

So Linux terminals, or most of them anyway, render ANSI escape sequences very well. What you're talking about are the IBM CP437 characters used for BBS "graphics" back in the day. Most Linux terminals assume/use UTF-8 text encoding by default, so those "high characters" indicate something other than the CP437 characters of MS-DOS days. You can either change the locale/LANG of the terminal to something other than UTF-8 or (better yet) use tools that convert CP437 to UTF-8 when reading/displaying legacy BBS display files ("ansi art").

The "ansi" part isn't the problem.
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