Miscellaneous PC Tools for Dino's

One of the things I've wanted for a long time has been a font that displays EBCDIC encodings — so x'40' displays as a space, not an at sign. This is so I can "understand" binary FTPs without the overheads of a hex editor.

Finally I created my own using a set of glyphs from the Free Software Foundation.

Thinking that others might also find these useful, I am offering them to cbttape.org. There are three TTF files:

  • ecp00000.ttf — displays A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and (what I think are) unchanging characters
  • ecp01140.ttf — displays code page 1140 (which is CP 37 with euro)
  • ecp01141.ttf — CP 1141 (=CP 500 with euro)

In each font, the non-characters display their hex value.