Subj : It's merged
To   : Al
From : Oli
Date : Thu Oct 24 2019 11:19:04

 Ol>> Is it just a (display) character or is it a control character?
 Ol>> I'm not sure how  that works with the CP437 codepage and
 Ol>> variants, which define symbols for the control character range (0
 Ol>> to 31). In CP437 character number 13 is a single musical note,
 Ol>> but it is used as a control character (carriage return).

 Al> I think it is just a display character someone typed in a message or
 Al> from their tagline file.

 Al> From what I understood from apam's post there is a special graphics
 Al> mode in the linux terminal that is activated with <Ctrl> N or
 Al> character 14. For whatever reason my terminal goes into that graphics
 Al> mode when that character is encountered, the musical note character.
 Al> Instead of seeing letters and numbers I see graphics characters.

 Ol>> Is the linux console and ssh using the UTF-8 mode?

 Al> My terminal is UTF-8 so I assume the terminal and ssh use that as
 Al> well.

If you convert character 14 from CP437 to character 14 in UTF-8 it becomes an
unambiguous control character. There is nothing to display anymore. I think
it's best to convert characters <32 that are not used as control characters to
their UTF-8 symbol character equivalents.


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