ascii values

[Dean Martineau]

aWhat are the numeric value in the ASCII table for the letters
^c, ^g, ^h, ^j, and ^s?
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[Lars Henrik Mathiesen]

From: an...@cleveland.freenet.edu (Dean Martineau)

What are the numeric value in the ASCII table for the letters
^c, ^g, ^h, ^j, and ^s?

Well, ASCII is the name of a 7-bit coded character set containing
those 94 graphic characters that we all know and love, and as such
cannot contain the letters you want. There are several common
extensions to this character set, however, such as the various MS-DOS
codepages, the Macintosh fonts, DEC Multinational, and ISO 8859. (Only
the latter is an official international standard.)

None of those, however, have the Esperanto letters in standard places;
if they are available at all, you will have to specify some special
codepage or font. The only one I can tell you about is "Part 3: Latin
alphabet No. 3" of ISO 8859 (a.k.a. 8859-3). If you have a system that
supports this alphabet under ISO 2022 (the character set switching
standard) you can select it with the sequence "ESC - C" . In this
alphabet, the Esperanto characters are (in decimal):

^C 198 ^c 230 ^J 172 ^j 188
^G 216 ^g 248 ^S 222 ^s 254
^H 166 ^h 182 ^U 221 ^u 253

I think someone on this list has made one or more 8859-3 fonts for X,
but apart from that you will be lucky to find support for this coding.
(I have even seen talk on another list about ISO dropping this part of
the standard.)

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <tho...@diku.dk> (Humour NOT marked)