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- Path: sparky!uunet!deere!jrh@de.deere.com
- From: jrh@de.deere.com (John R. Howell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: zip - 8 bit ascii "characters"?
- Message-ID: <1158@deere.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:44:03 GMT
- References: <1152@deere.com> <og471gk@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Sender: usenet@deere.com
- Organization: Deere & Company
- Lines: 21
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- In article <og471gk@fido.asd.sgi.com>, davis@bedlam.asd.sgi.com (Tom Davis) writes:
- >
- > Zip supports 8 bit characters. If such a character appears in the
- > text, zip represents it as Xhh, where X is a funny-looking "x" in
- > a box, and hh are two hex digits. Thus, control-C looks like:
- > X03, where "X" is the funny looking character.
-
- Well, what I really want to do is have zip display the extended characters
- correctly. i.e. I'd like to use the degree symbol, registered symbol,
- foreign characters and others that are available in the "standard" PostScript
- font. I would also like to import my own font, based on the ibm pc character
- set and be able to draw boxes, etc.
-
- So ... I guess the way I read this is that zip can accommodate 8 bit
- characters, it will just display the high bit ones with the above
- short hand instead of the actual characters.
-
- Thanks.
-
- John
-
-