Modding:Code page 437

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Reason: More testing needed. Are there other codes that do not follow 437 conventions? If the intended 437 code is used for these irregular symbols, does it still work?

In Qud, there are certain symbols that are used in the game strings that take the form of \u0000, where 0 is any digit in hexadecimal. This code does not represent the character in unicode, rather the code page 437 on old IBM pcs. The game also uses the escape code �, where 0 is any digit in decimal in its XML files. Below is the table of the entire codepage. For more information, see Wikipedia's own page about Code page 437.

Table

\u00__	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	NUL?Empty Character 0	☺ 1	☻ 2	♥ 3	♦ 4	♣ 5	♠ 6	• 7	◘ 8	○ 9	◙ 10	♂ 11	♀ 12	♪ 13	♫ 14	☼ 15
1_	► 16	◄ 17	↕ 18	‼ 19	¶ 20	§ 21	▬ 22	↨ 23	↑ 24	↓ 25	→ 26	← 27	∟ 28	↔ 29	▲ 30	▼ 31
2_	SP?Whitespace 32	! 33	" 34	# 35	$ 36	% 37	& 38	' 39	( 40	) 41	* 42	+ 43	, 44	- 45	. 46	/ 47
3_	0 48	1 49	2 50	3 51	4 52	5 53	6 54	7 55	8 56	9 57	: 58	; 59	< 60	= 61	> 62	? 63
4_	@ 64	A 65	B 66	C 67	D 68	E 69	F 70	G 71	H 72	I 73	J 74	K 75	L 76	M 77	N 78	O 79
5_	P 80	Q 81	R 82	S 83	T 84	U 85	V 86	W 87	X 88	Y 89	Z 90	[ 91	\ 92	] 93	^ 94	_ 95
6_	` 96	a 97	b 98	c 99	d 100	e 101	f 102	g 103	h 104	i 105	j 106	k 107	l 108	m 109	n 110	o 111
7_	p 112	q 113	r 114	s 115	t 116	u 117	v 118	w 119	x 120	y 121	z 122	{ 123	|?Modern computers and CoQ will render this as a |, although it appeared as ¦ on original IBM computers. 124	} 125	~ 126	⌂ 127
8_	Ç 128	ü 129	é 130	â 131	ä 132	à 133	å 134	ç 135	ê 136	ë 137	è 138	ï 139	î 140	ì 141	Ä 142	Å 143
9_	É 144	æ 145	Æ 146	ô 147	ö 148	ò 149	û 150	ù 151	ÿ 152	Ö 153	Ü 154	¢ 155	£ 156	¥ 157	₧ 158	ƒ 159
A_	á 160	í 161	ó 162	ú 163	ñ 164	Ñ 165	ª 166	º 167	¿ 168	⌐ 169	¬ 170	½ 171	¼ 172	¡ 173	« 174	» 175
B_	░ 176	▒ 177	▓ 178	│ 179	┤ 180	╡ 181	╢ 182	╖ 183	╕ 184	╣ 185	║ 186	╗ 187	╝ 188	╜ 189	╛ 190	┐ 191
C_	└ 192	┴ 193	┬ 194	├ 195	─ 196	┼ 197	╞ 198	╟ 199	╚ 200	╔ 201	╩ 202	╦ 203	╠ 204	═ 205	╬ 206	╧ 207
D_	╨ 208	╤ 209	╥ 210	╙ 211	╘ 212	╒ 213	╓ 214	╫ 215	╪ 216	┘ 217	┌ 218	█ 219	▄ 220	▌ 221	▐ 222	▀ 223
E_	α 224	ß 225	Γ 226	π 227	Σ 228	σ 229	µ 230	τ 231	Φ 232	Θ 233	Ω 234	δ 235	∞ 236	φ 237	ε 238	∩ 239
F_	≡ 240	± 241	≥ 242	≤ 243	⌠ 244	⌡ 245	÷ 246	≈ 247	° 248	• 249	· 250	√ 251	ⁿ 252	² 253	■ 254	NBSP?non breaking space 255

Characters As Rendered In-Game

Example Codes in Qud

In most cases, the strings are added as

str.Append(color code).Append(escape code for symbol)

Where str is an object of the StringBuilder class. For more info about Caves of Qud's color code, check out Modding: Text Color Codes & Object Rendering.

In Game	String	Usage
♥	&r\u0003	HP or Damage
→	&c\u001a	Penetration, or slipping
♦	&b\u0004	Armor value
¢	&C\u009b	Cybernetics credit wedge

Unconventional Codes

The following escape codes do not follow the regular code page 437 codes.

In Game	String	Usage
ο	&K\t	Dodge symbol
☼	&c\a	Lase