Cedric Chang wrote:
>> On May 1, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Vitaliy wrote:
>>
>> Cedric Chang wrote:
>>>
>>> I used to have a font ( maybe 25 years ago ) that displayed
>>> 20 for the space character, 30 for ASCII zero, 31 for ASCII one
>>> and so on.  I can't find it anymore.
>>> Any ideas on how to reproduce or find such a font ?
>>> I tried googling.  I was not sure what keywords might work
>>> and the ones I tried did not.
>>>
>>> This is an example of how the font would show an ASCII space
>>> ( hex 20 )
>>>
>>>
>>>   8888
>>> 8        8
>>>         8     8888
>>>      8      8        8
>>>  88888 8        8
>>>               8        8
>>>                 8888
>>>
>>
>> My old HP protocol analyzer does this. :)
>>
>> What would be the application of this font? Are you looking for TTF, a
>> bitmap font, or a DOS 5x7 font? I've created all three kinds at one
>> point or
>> another (usually by conversion and slight modification)...
>>
>> Vitaliy
>
> 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> Hi Vitaliy
>
> I have a terminal emulator for RS-232 communications.  Frequently it
> spits out ASCII codes that are displayed only as blocks /
> rectangles.  I would like to easy discern what the ASCII codes are.
> I am going to use this on a MacIntosh, so I imagine that TTF or
> bitmap should work.

Have you already picked a font you want to use for this? Do you have 
experience with Corel or another vector program?

It shouldn't be too hard to grab an existing font, and add the special 
characters you need.

http://www.hiddenglade.com/cdfonts.htm

Vitaliy 

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