siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck ) (06/17/91)
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: >In article <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes: >How about it, you non-English speakers? Give us English-speaking programmers >a break and tell us what we need to do to get our programs to work on your >computers... Ok, so here we go (this is from Germany): We need 8 Bits for our characters. You can simulate some of our characters by sending the following sequences to a standard teletype printer (three characters each, where <BS> is a Backspace == 0x08): "<BS>a "<BS>o "<BS>u "<BS>A "<BS>O "<BS>U and then one more, the character Alt-225 (Numeric keypad). And still another one, and that's what give us trouble: The sign for a paragraph, IBMPC character set Alt-21!! Yes, it's a Ctrl-U and we need it for any "legal" text quoting laws ... This character is a special headache, because it is BELOW 0x20!!!! FLAME ON IBM DECIDED THIS!!!! FLAME OFF Greetings, Wolfgang -- siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
bruceb@informix.com (Bruce Barr) (06/18/91)
Just to clarify Herr Seibeck's post: The paragraph sign is Decimal 225 in the 850 code page. It is Decimal 21 in the original 437 code page. I have had other countries express an interest in this symbol, but the German government seem to be the ones who REQUIRE it. Cheers, BB