Code Page 437

["J.P. Larocque" <piranha@mindless.com>]

Hello,

I'm trying to set up Falken, a BBS program for Linux.  It excessively uses
"ANSI graphics," in other words, ASCII text graphics done with characters from
the Code Page 437 character set, with ANSI coloring.  CP-437 is the same
character set DOS uses and sometimes known as the IBM PC character set.

My problem is Linux seems to use the Latin-1 character set, both on the
console, and in xterms.  Therefore ANSI graphics look corrupted, in both
Falken, as well as viewing ANSI files (*.ans) and calling dial-up BBSs that
make use of CP-437 (as most do) from minicom.  How can I either start an xterm
with the CP-437 character set, or set the console font for CP-437?

As for console fonts, I can't find anything suitable in
/usr/share/consolefonts/.  Could anyone suggest a place to download CP-437
console fonts?

As for xterms, I know about the '-fn' option, but I don't know how to find
what fonts I have available in X.  As I'm sure you all can tell, I don't know
much about X.  =)  I would certainly prefer finding a way to use CP-437 in
an xterm than in the console, as I mostly use X.

DOSEMU's 'xdos' uses the correct font but I don't know if the font is part of
X--and therefore accessible to xterm--or proprietary to xdos.

I should note that I still use slink.  It's hard to upgrade when your Internet
connection is a 14.4kbps modem.

Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can reply with information.

-- 
 J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha
 piranha@mindless.com