minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (01/14/86)
Answering the question
>is this a dollar or a pound sign $
Assuming that '$' is the character at position 2/4 (decimal 36), it should
be a dollar sign on all Ascii terminals. If you wish to display a pound
sterling mark, and have selected the proper National Replacement Character
(NRC) set for your terminal, the character '#' at position 2/3 (decimal 35)
may be used.
Ansi terminals, such as the VT100 and VT200 series, use an escape sequence
to designate a character set in one of four "intermediate pointers", called
G0 through G3. Several escape sequences may be used to designate G0 through
G3 into a selectable GL or GR set.
For example, if you want to display the United Kingdom NRC set, you may
load it into G0 by sending <ESC>(A and then select G0 in GL as the active
character set by sending SI (octal 17).
Among the character sets which display pound sign are
Final
R French
Y Italian
< Dec Multinational
Z Spanish
A United Kingdom
(where Final is the final character of the escape sequence).
Note: if you edit the following line by replacing <ESC> by a real escape
(decimal 27) character, it should display a Pound-Sterling mark on terminals
that support the United Kingdom NRC:
<ESC>+A<ESC>O#
The sequence is as follows:
<ESC>+A Select UK in G3
<ESC>O Single-shift 3 -- next char. comes from G3
# The character at position 2/3
I am aware that this is a fairly messy problem (I had to deal with
it for DECtalk) which, hopefully, will eventually start to go
away when the eight-bit ISO Latin 1 alphabet comes into wide use.
Martin Minow
decvax!minowlamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) (01/15/86)
> ISO Latin 1 8 bit alphabet?
Which languages are included? Are accented capitals included?
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Jean-Francois Lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.
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