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Well, I'm ecstatic. What a beautiful font.

After seeing this, I was finally inspired to find out why BitchX wouldn't display ANSI art correctly.

Turns out I needed a code 437 emulator! [1]

I can now use it the way it was meant to. Here it is paired with unscii-16-full 12pt [2]

This isn't nostalgia, this is just _better_.

[1] https://github.com/keaston/cp437

[2] https://i.imgur.com/3Oj9Vsy.png

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> Turns out I needed a code 437 emulator! [1]

So that… just converts from cp437 (output by the subprocess) to whatever the "system encoding" (assumed to be the terminal's) is?

I'm surprised iconv or the like doesn't handle that natively. Or is the issue that you still need to interact with the subprocess and iconv(1) only does piping/non-interactive conversions?

I hadn't realized it was even maintained still this decade, or the preceding one. It's latest version is 1.2.1 and released on November 14, 2014... Not exactly up-to-date by some standards but I'm glad it's still around.

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