I have strings that are mostly standard alpha-numeric and other printable ASCII characters, and would like to display these in a console window on Windows. What I'm looking for is either a console font or a unicode set of characters that represent the numbers 0-255 (0-FF) using a single glyph for each. The thing that comes closest that I am aware of is that unicode has a small set of circled numbers, 1-20, and elsewhere numbers 21-50. Something along those lines, but for 0-255 (or 0-FF) is what I'm trying to find.
It seems to me that this would be a relatively common need/desire, but I've been unable to track down a solution. Any help appreciated!
The C0 and C1 controls can be represented by control pictures. The rest of the C0 Controls and Basic Latin, and C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement blocks can be represented by themselves. You may have to test a few fonts to find one that supports all these characters.
However, you said "ASCII" and "0-255". But, ASCII has only 128 codepoints. Your codepoints 128-255 must be from an unnamed character set. Although you probably mean one of the well-known ones, they are so numerous that a detailed answer isn't practical.
There is also the Unicode BMP Fallback SIL font that covers U+0000 to U+FFFF (but not U+10000 to U+10FFFF).