HowTo: Have unprintable characters 0x01 thru 0x05 displayed?

l_d_allan · Post by **l_d_allan** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:38 pm

I've been using TextPad for quite a few years, and have generally been quite satisfied with it.

I've got a file that is mostly usa-ascii 7-bit characters in the range from 32 to 126 (0x20 thru 0x7e). However, there are some characters in the 1 thru 5 range (0x01 thru 0x5) that are to be treated special.

I've been unable to find a configuration that displays these characters in such a way that one can be distinquished from another.

I'd like to see ♥ ♣ , but instead I see either a box ( using Courier New or System font) for all characters, or a something that looks like a filled in, wide | (using Courier font).

Is there a setting so that these unprintable characters are shown so that they can be distinquished from each other?

I found one entry from 2002 about this in the end-user forums, but there was no answer to the question that was pretty much the same question I am asking.

TIA

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:09 pm

Have you tried Terminal font. It displays the control characters in the way you describe on my machine, but Terminal isn't a real font in its own right, and I don't know which of the *.fon files it's using here.

l_d_allan · Post by **l_d_allan** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:03 pm

Seems to work ... rather an ugly font, but I'm seeing different "ding-bat" like characters for 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, etc.

Thanks!