On 04/03/15, Maurice Kinal said the following...
 
 MK>  AI> I think they are ansi templates I can covert to utf-8.

 MK> Gotcha.  Yes those would need to be converted before displaying but that
 MK> also could be done on the fly rather than converting it on the disk. 
 MK> That way other cp437 users can still use it.  On your console try
 MK> something like this;
 MK> 
 MK>   iconv -f cp437 -t utf8 whatever.ans

Yep, I think I'll be able to use that.
 
 MK> and it should display fine as long as it there are no ansi escape
 MK> sequences that expect your display to be anything other than 80x24 which
 MK> can and does happen.  Mind you if your display is 80x24 then it
 MK> shouldn't be an issue.

My console is 80x24. Most folks proably couldn't use it nowadays but the BBS
looks good that way.. :)

I did a quick test and failed. I think the input file I used was too
complicated and something messed up the output. I should have tried the
original file I converted but it didn't occur to me at the time. I'll have a
fresh look at all this when time permits.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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