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Answer» The title basically SAYS it all. Do you know if there is any font that has all the DOS characters in it?
If you don't know exactly what I mean, here: http://czyborra.com/charsets/cp437.gifWhat you call DOS font is one of the pagers used by windows for keyboards in other languages.
Look at the top of a web page source code,
Code: [Select]<head>
<META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
....
the windows-1252 is the page most often used for English Windows
Please read over this information and in the future sdo not use the term 'DOS font' because that is a very old idea.
Better term is 'DOS system font'
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/87372
Here is the standard English Windows char set.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
Please not that is is not just a font. It is a charset.
May Windows fonts have most, if not all, of chars in the charset.
It is more often called code page and one such is also called ANSI. The ANSI set is also the DOS system font, or can be declared to be the system font.
Of course, different languages will alter the code page. Example if the code page is Brazilian Portuguese, it does not look the same as English and can REALLY confuse you if you visit Brazil and want to use a fiends computer in DOS.
Does this help any?
That is some good information, but the font you linked is not right. If you look at the font preview area on the site you linked, there is a tiny down arrow in the lower left. If you press that repeatedly, you will see that that font doesn't have the correct characters. It has the weird windows foreign language characters instead of the old ASCII dos ones. I NEED a font with all the chars like I linked in the OP. Found it!
http://webdraft.hu/fonts/classic-console/
You can see it has the extended chars at the bottom if you look at the first and second images.In at least one of the links I gave, the control chars and not supposed to have visible forms. But you know, that was done in old DOS versions.
Codes from 0 to 31 do not print. But TAB, CR and LF do something to cursor position. In web page design you can not use these directly. You have to have a tag that is sued for any special codes.
Quote Code page 437 is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer), or MS-DOS. It is also known as CP43
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Quoterpretation of code points 1–31 and 127
Code points 1–31 and 127 (00–1Fhex and 7Fhex) may be interpreted as either control or graphic characters, depending on the context. When used in a memory-mapped video display buffer, the code point is displayed as the graphic shown in the table of special graphic characters below. For printers the graphics context is established by a preceding control sequence in the data stream. In other situations, these code points are used as controls, as shown in the standard code page table.[5]
Most fonts for Microsoft Windows INCLUDE the special graphic characters at the Unicode indexes shown, as they are part of the WGL4 set that Microsoft encourages font designers to support. (The monospaced raster font family Terminal was an early font that replicated all code page 437 characters, at least at some resolutions.) To draw these characters directly from these code points, a Microsoft Windows font called MS Linedraw[6] replicates all of the code page 437 characters, thus providing one way to display DOS text on a contemporary Windows machine as it was shown in DOS, with limitations.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Interpretation_of_code_points_1.E2.80.9331_and_127
Historically, code 0 and code 127 where null and rub out used in 7 bit teleprinters.
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