As an alternative you can get (nearly all) the control characters rendered as: * little pictures, fr
As an alternative you can get (nearly all) the control characters rendered as:
* little pictures, from this (the Unicode "Control Pictures" U+2400 to U+2421) range
␀ ␁ ␂ ␃ ␃ ␄ ␅ ␆ ␇ ␈ ␉ ␊ ␋ ␌ ␍ ␎ ␏ ␐ ␑ ␒ ␓ ␔ ␕ ␖ ␗ ␘ ␙ ␚ ␛ ␜ ␝ ␞ ␟ ␠ ␡ how they get rendered depends on the font being used (they look different to me in Discord compared to the utility I used to pick them.
* a range of glyphs that try to reproduce the OEM Font that PC BIOSes use:
☺️☻ ♥️ ♦️ ♣️ ♠️ • ◘ ○ ◙ ♂️ ♀️ ♪ ♫ ☼ ► ◄ ↕️ ‼️ ¶ § ▬ ↨ ↑ ↓ → ← ∟ ↔️ ▲ ▼ ⌂
{:relaxed:☻ :hearts: :diamonds: :clubs: :spades: • ◘ ○ ◙ :male_sign: :female_sign: ♪ ♫ ☼ ► ◄ :arrow_up_down: :bangbang: ¶ § ▬ ↨ ↑ ↓ → ← ∟ :left_right_arrow: ▲ ▼ ⌂}
unfortunately Discord intercepts them and doesn't render them in the wanted "Text presentation" format here {mind you Mudlet gets caught in the same way on some OSes!} - to see them as intended check out the first couple of lines of the table here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Character_set
there is now an option to control this in the preferences.Code page 437
Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer). It is also known as CP437, OEM-US, OEM 437, PC-8, or DOS Latin US. The set includes all printable ASCII characters, extended codes for accented letters (diacritics), some Greek letters, icons, and line-drawing symbols. It is sometimes referred to as the "O...
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