On November 5, 2003 06:33 pm, Eugene wrote: > 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. > I found this page with software that claims to do the conversion you need. http://jds-freeware.hypermart.net/ Try "Code-Page-437-text ~ to ~ Unicode-UTF-16 Converter" but run the usual security stuff on untrusted binaries. Check this out too: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/codepages.html#ibmdos I've found this by googling "dos code page utf". ;) Pulat http://primedatasolutions.com/ Websites. Databases. Security. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.