Special characters not displaying?

I tried connecting to a BBS today and noticed there were a lot of jewel-with-a-question-mark-shaped characters displayed. I'm almost certain they should be some type of character that isn't being displayed correctly:
Is there a special way to make these characters visible? I'm not certain of the font I'm using, and not entirely sure how to figure it out. I've read is some places that this might be IBM extended ASCII? If it is, how could I get/install it on my system?
I don't have a specific font set in /etc/vconsole.conf:
[mukti@blackmesa ~]$ cat /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=us
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
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Last edited by mukti (2012-12-10 02:24:38)

Hello Paul,
I once used hexadecimal coded characters like &xnnn; and they were not transformed. When coding them in decimal, everthing worked fine.
Hth
J�rg

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