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    From Mike@1:229/310 to All on Fri Feb 9 07:21:02 2024
    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 Sat Feb 10 18:32:00 2024

    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 Sun Feb 11 18:13:33 2024
    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 Thu Feb 15 12:52:31 2024
    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 Thu Feb 15 12:40:02 2024
    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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