Subj : Re: ANSI in Mystic ? - a repeat for sure..
To   : deon
From : paulie420
Date : Thu Dec 08 2022 02:37 pm

 de>  > I want to display ANSI characters in a writeln() MPL function. I can't 
 de>  > copy the characters from a Linux terminal; its in UTF-8... I know there
 de>  > way to get the 'correct' characters, but forgot how.
 de> 
 de> You are probably after iconv.
 de> To see ANSI on a utf8 termainl. "cat ansifile.ans | iconv -f cp437 -t
 de> utf8"
 de> The other way around is "cat file.txt | iconv -f utf8 -t cp437"

So I do that on all my machines w/ a;
alias ans='iconv -f cp437 -t utf8'

So I can just type 'ans filename.ans' to view it - but ok, so I type that command, some ANSI spits out, and I manually copy/pase that ANSI into an MPL writeln('') function - it doesn't display correctly.

Another users pointed out I can writeln(#228) to get a character, but I'm trying to get an ANSI character         ^^^^ in there. :P

Thanks for the iconv info, its an awesome tool for any sysOp to display ANSI in their terminal.



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