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    From Tony Toon@tony@lappy.deepthaw.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, November 07, 2020 03:14:05
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    I'm in the process (a long process) of putting up a BBS and while it'll be running on linux, I'd like for it to support apple ii clients.

    When I used PT3 on my IIe, I notice it had a "ProTERM Special" option
    which appeared to make the mousekeys glyphs available.

    Are there any guidelines out there on how to configure a bbs to display
    those?
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  • From fadden@thefadden@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, November 07, 2020 07:48:30
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 1:14:10 AM UTC-8, Tony Toon wrote:
    When I used PT3 on my IIe, I notice it had a "ProTERM Special" option
    which appeared to make the mousekeys glyphs available.

    Are there any guidelines out there on how to configure a bbs to display those?

    We had a discussion about MouseText -> Unicode a few years back: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.apple2/8VTjK-kMZXo/CSia974tCQAJ

    Here's the conversion table used by CiderPress: https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/blob/9de0b421476ff3ab3dca5b5c0de6f4ec0d909a90/reformat/ReformatBase.cpp#L746

    IIRC, the Windows monospace font didn't have entries for all of those, so it came out a little funny looking.
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  • From kelvin@kelvin@pro-kegs.uucp (Kelvin Sherlock) to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, November 07, 2020 17:18:09
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    See the ProTERM Owner's Manual, appendix E. In short:

    control-N: normal mode
    control-O: inverse mode
    control-P: mouse text

    In <alpine.DEB.2.21.2011070312460.9330@lappy.deepthaw.net>
    Tony Toon <tony@lappy.deepthaw.net> writes:

    I'm in the process (a long process) of putting up a BBS and while it'll be >running on linux, I'd like for it to support apple ii clients.

    When I used PT3 on my IIe, I notice it had a "ProTERM Special" option
    which appeared to make the mousekeys glyphs available.

    Are there any guidelines out there on how to configure a bbs to display >those?

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    ProLine: kelvin@pro-kegs
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  • From Steve Nickolas@usotsuki@buric.co to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, November 07, 2020 18:00:19
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    On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, fadden wrote:

    We had a discussion about MouseText -> Unicode a few years back: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.apple2/8VTjK-kMZXo/CSia974tCQAJ

    Here's the conversion table used by CiderPress: https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/blob/9de0b421476ff3ab3dca5b5c0de6f4ec0d909a90/reformat/ReformatBase.cpp#L746

    IIRC, the Windows monospace font didn't have entries for all of those,
    so it came out a little funny looking.

    They're in Unicode officially now. XD That includes the Running Man and
    its IIgs replacements.

    -uso.
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  • From fadden@thefadden@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, November 07, 2020 16:23:22
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    On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 3:00:22 PM UTC-8, Steve Nickolas wrote:
    They're in Unicode officially now. XD That includes the Running Man and
    its IIgs replacements.

    TIL!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MouseText#Inclusion_in_Unicode shows them. Looks like a mix of BMP and "Symbols for Legacy Computing" (https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf).
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