Font question

[Eugene]

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 6:06 pm, Pulat Yunusov wrote:
> On November 5, 2003 05:31 pm, Eugene wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 4:29 pm, Pulat Yunusov wrote:
> > > On November 5, 2003 02:15 pm, Eugene Nine wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure if this is KDE specific or not, I have some old
> > > > documents that were written with DOS Edit and have higher ASCII
> > > > symbols in them. I'm trying to open them with Kwrite or Kword but
> > > > need a Font with the higher ASCII symbols.  I seem to remember I
> > > > either found one in Windows to do this or edited one myself copying
> > > > the symbols from a symbol font over to a regular font but in the
> > > > appripriate ASCII values.  Is there a font I can use with KDE/Linux
> > > > to get these symbols without re editing my docuement?
> > > >
> > > > Eugene Nine
> > >
> > > I believe any Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) font will do the trick because, as
> > > far as I know, that encoding includes ASCII and what you refer to as
> > > higher ASCII characters. What problem exactly do you have when you open
> > > your documents in KWrite or KWord?
> > >
> > > Pulat
> > > http://primedatasolutions.com/
> > > Websites. Databases. Security.
> >
> > I'm looking for the ones from 128-255 at www.asciitable.com.  If you open
> > KcharSelect there are 8 rows, with the characters going from 0-255 so the
> > bottom 4 rows are the extended 128-255.  I've used some of the math
> > symbols like 251, 245, 244 159 and the Greek characters like 225, 234,
> > etc.    I think all those exist in the higher tables of different fonts
> > but I have to try and search/replace little squares with the correct
> > ones, but If I can find a font that has them in the place already it will
> > be easier.  I think I either used a terminal font in windows or edited a
> > font to make what I need. I've been searching for font editors but
> > haven't found much.
>
> That looks like the IBM ASCII chart and I am not sure if fonts or editors
> that ship with KDE support it. You might want to search for a tool that
> will convert IBM ASCII (extended) text to Unicode, which definitely has
> entities for the characters you're looking for and is the right encoding to
> migrate to for the long-term. Once your text is converted, you can edit it
> with a modern Unicode editor.
>
I guess I should have been more specific, you are correct IBM's extended 
ASCII.  That would be ideal if I could convert them.  I've tried kwrite, 
kword, opecoffice but nothing seems to convert properly.  You don't know of 
any programs/scripts to do it do you?  I think it would be pretty simple, 
just look up the ext ascii in a list and replace with the corresponding 
unicode character, but I haven't learned any unix shell scripting yet.



> Pulat
> http://primedatasolutions.com/
> Websites. Databases. Security.
>
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