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    From Mike@1:229/310 to All on Friday, February 09, 2024 09:21:02
    I'm launching an external python script, not MPY script.

    When I'm trying to display ansi block characters I get the following. "█".

    I am opening the ansi file with cp437 encoding, and everything displays correctly from a bash terminal, but within syncterm I'm getting that?

    Any ideas how to fix this?

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  • From Martin Kazmaier@1:340/1101 to Mike on Saturday, February 10, 2024 20:32:00

    I'm launching an external python script, not MPY script.

    When I'm trying to display ansi block characters I get the following. "█".

    I am opening the ansi file with cp437 encoding, and everything displays correctly from a bash terminal, but within syncterm I'm getting that?

    Any ideas how to fix this?

    Python 2 or 3? I'm not nearly a Mystic expert, but I could never get Python
    3 to work with it.

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  • From Mike@1:229/310 to Martin Kazmaier on Sunday, February 11, 2024 20:13:33
    Python 2 or 3? I'm not nearly a Mystic expert, but I could never get Python 3 to work with it.

    Its a python script completely independant of mystic.

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  • From Christian Sacks@2:250/5 to Mike on Thursday, February 15, 2024 14:52:31
    On 09 Feb 2024, Mike said the following...

    When I'm trying to display ansi block characters I get the following. "█".

    I am opening the ansi file with cp437 encoding, and everything displays correctly from a bash terminal, but within syncterm I'm getting that?

    Sounds like python is displaying it with utf8 encoding, change the encoding to output cp437 and you'll be golden.

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  • From Mike@1:229/310 to Christian Sacks on Thursday, February 15, 2024 14:40:02
    Sounds like python is displaying it with utf8 encoding, change the encoding to output cp437 and you'll be golden.

    Thanks, I managed to get this working after some googling and suggestions.

    Got some other hurdles to fix, such as escape key multiple times shows the directory contents??

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