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- From: uunet!topaz.rutgers.edu!linhart (Mike Threepoint)
-
- u <- guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
-
- When we last left our conversation:
- [description of MS Windows "ANSI" character set]
- me> Sound like ISO 8859?
-
- u> Yes. The superscripted letters *do* come from ISO 8859 (see below).
-
- Thanks to your table, I can confirm that they match. Multiply and
- divide symbols are missing, replaced by the ubiquitous empty box, but
- now my EGA font is complete (for my IBM compatible, made with CHET, I
- could post it to binaries if anyone really wanted it).
-
- me> What I would also like to see is the ASCII 0..1F (31 dec.) graphic
- me> representations on new machines conform to the ANSI standard. They
- me> might look impractical, but after setting up a font using them on my
- me> micro, it's amazing how much sense they make to me.
-
- u> What "graphic representations" are you referring to? The only ANSI standard
- u> I know of for characters in the range 0x00 to 0x1f is ASCII, which says
- u> they're *control* characters, not *printable* characters.
-
- The rather obscure ANSI X3.32-1973 "Graphic Representation of the
- Control Characters of ASCII" defines them for use when the
- name-in-tiny-letters isn't used. I found it in Joe Cambell's "C
- Programmers Guide to Serial Communications" (Howard W. Sams & Co.)
- [wish I had a copy of my own, had to reborrow it to get the ID] which
- contains an ASCII chart poster with those symbols on it.
-
- It goes something like this: (they're in that aforementioned font, too)
-
- ^@ NUL a hollow square, like the one used in Mac character sets for
- undefined characters
- ^A SOH the left column and top row of the cell set, like an
- inverted L
- ^B STX the bottom row and center column set, like a
- perpendicular symbol
- ^C ETX the right column and bottom row set, like a reversed L
- ^D EOT a single zig-zag, like a lightning bolt
- ^E ENQ a square with an X in it
- ^F ACK a check mark (tick mark to you Europeans)
- ^G BEL a hemisphere with two L shaped feet, I want to say
- "doodlebug", but it's probably more like an
- electronic component
- ^H BS an up arrow bent over leftwards into a U-shaped hook
- at the top
- ^I HT a right arrow with the barbs extended to the length of
- the shaft, more like a dart
- ^J LF three parallel horizontal lines
- ^K VT a downward pointing dart [Campbell says that instead
- of overloading LF with NewLine worsening the present
- incompatibilites, ANSI should have redefined this
- almost totally unused character]
- ^L FF a down dart with a second arrowhead midway down its
- shaft
- ^M CR a left dart
- ^N SO a circle with an X in it
- ^O SI a circle with a dot in the center
- ^P DLE a square with a horizontal line through the middle
- ^Q DC1 a circle with the top right quarter sectioned off,
- that is, lines from the center to the top and right
- ^R DC2 same, but lower right quarter
- ^S DC3 same, but lower left quarter
- ^T DC4 same, but top left quarter
- ^U NAK a check (tick) mark with a horizontal line thru the
- center
- ^V SYN a rectangle with the bottom cut in half and turned
- outward, like a bottomless rectangle with feet
- ^W ETB the right column and center row set, a T on its side
- ^X CAN a down pointing hollow triangle on an up pointing one,
- like an hourglass
- ^Y EM a vertical line with a fat dot in the middle
- ^Z SUB a backwards ?
- ^[ ESC a circle with a line through the center
- ^\ FS a square box with the top left quarter sectioned off
- ^] GS same, but bottom left
- ^^ RS same, but bottom right
- ^_ US same, but top right
-
- u> For your collective amusement, here is a chart of ISO 8859/1 or "ISO Latin
- u> Alphabet #1". This was derived by some quick hacking on the X11 include
- u> file "keysymdef.h" - yes, X11 uses the ISO character sets as well.
- [table deleted]
-
- Thanx, I appreciate it. I'm still interested in 8859-3 (which I read
- supports Esperanto), if it's not too much trouble could you tell me
- a) what _its_ layout is, or b) how much to send to where?
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