extended characters
Martin Atkins
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|a technical question
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|i'm trying to figure out if it is possible to include extended ascii
|characters in a web page (as they are included in the attached table
|ascii2.gif - particularily #176, 240, 254 and 255)
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|the convention
| < &#---; >
|which works to call characters from the standard ascii table, does not
|work for the extended table, instead you end up with IS0 entities
|(accented characters etc.)
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|i'm trying to access the characters that appear in DOS when you hold the
|<alt> key and type a 3 digit reference number on the number pad
|
|if anybody knows how or whether this is possible in a web environment,
|please let me know
|
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You need to use a value, which I believe is in unicode but I'm not sure.
This doesn't allow for most of the extended DOS characters, but adds a lot
more.
Since the DOS characters are nonstandard (for dos and dos alone) the only
way to do it is to copy+paste them into the webpage - but it will look ugly
on anything apart from DOS. You could also make a GIF of whatever you are
trying to put into the page ... it's clunky but it works.
-Martin
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Andrew Carpenter
wants,
along with all the other DOS characters :O)
it comes as standard with windows, from 3.1 to 98 (AFAIK)
Andrew
Martin Atkins wrote in message <371ba856...@news.vossnet.net>...
Meph
Andrew Carpenter <ne...@gloucestershire.freeserve.co.uk> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 7flj9m$ne5$1...@news4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> He should use the windows font "terminal". that has the characters he
> wants,
> along with all the other DOS characters :O)
I have tried to use the 'Terminal' font in HTML, but the browser hasn't displayed
it correct. Could you please post the tags which implement the extended 'Terminal'
characters.
Thanks
Marc