Modding:Code page 437

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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. In XML, this also takes the form of �, where the 0 is any digit in hexadecimal (Single digit hexadecimal will not be padded or have trailing 0s Ex: ). 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

\x__	_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

To use one of these characters in a name or description in game, you may need to escape them. For instance, to get the ♥, in C# you would use "\x03", and in the XML &x03;. In most cases, the strings are added with color codes, so here are some examples of that. For more info about Caves of Qud's color code, check out Modding: Colors & Object Rendering.

In Game	String	Usage
♥	{{r|\x03}}	HP or Damage
→	{{c|\x1a}}	Penetration, or slipping
♦	{{b|\x04}}	Armor value
¢	{{C|\x9b}}	Cybernetics credit wedge

In xml:

In Game	String	Usage
♥	{{r|}}	HP or Damage
→	{{c|}}	Penetration, or slipping
♦	{{b|}}	Armor value
¢	{{C|›}}	Cybernetics credit wedge

Remarks

You may also see the following escape sequences used in some places. They map indirectly to particular code page 437 values based on their underlying ASCII character value.

In Game	String	Usage	Notes
ο	{{K|\t}}	Dodge symbol	This works because \t stands for the TAB character, which has an ASCII character code of 9. Thus, it maps to code page 437 \x09.
•	{{G|\a}}	Blocked attack blip (among other things)	This works because \a stands for the BEL character, which has an ASCII character code of 7. Thus, it maps to code page 437 \x07.