line drawing character set

[rockfordwoods]

I am still supporting some old Clipper applications which use the line-drawing character set (ascii values above 128) for borders and such in input screen applications. When I open these files for editing in Zeus, these characters appear as *something else*. I have tried the editor general options to specify not loading in unix text and not loading in OEM text. This did not resolve the issue. If I use Macros->char to insert these characters, they are persistent and correct,,so I assume this is not a font issue. Any suggestions?

[jussij]

I have tried the editor general options to specify not loading in Unix text and not loading in OEM text.

As you have found neither of these options will fix this issue. The Unix option only effects the end of line characters and the OEM option will in fact do an OEM to ASCII translation, meaning your extended OEM ASCII line characters will get converted to ASCII and you will loose these line characters all together

If I use Macros->char to insert these characters, they are persistent and correct

That is very strange Could you post the source for this macro to this thread. Could you also let me know what font is selected in the Zeus Options, Editor Options, Fonts section.

so I assume this is not a font issue. Any suggestions?

I would have thought this was most certainly a font issue

For example if I use the Zeus Options, Editor Options, Fonts and select either of the Terminal or MS Linedraw fonts, then use the Zeus Tools, ASCII Chart menu, all the line characters from 179 throught to 218 decimal are displayed correct.

But if I then change the font to something else, for example Courier New, these line characters are no longer displayed correctly.

I would have thought the solution to this problem lies in selecting a font that defines the 179 through 218 characters as line drawing characters.

Cheers Jussi

[rockfordwoods]

Yup, my misunderstanding of where the fonts came from. I was under the impression Zeus was using it's own set. Did not have any font loaded that would support the line-drawing set. Resolved that, thanks.