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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 09:44:04 IST
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- From: "J-P Takala, University of Helsinki,
- Sociology" <JTAKALA@FINUHA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: changing symbol sets on HP laserjet
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- (This is strictly non-Lingua).
- Tom, thanks but I'm not sure whether I understood your suggestion, or that
- my original problem was clearly put.
- My problem now is not with keyboards or entering any ASCII character in the
- file. It is how to change the Symbol Set that the printer (HP LJ III in my
- case) uses when putting those codes onto paper. And how to change that
- within a file. I do need the Norwegian o-slash, which is excluded
- from the default Symbol Set, called "PC-8 Symbol Set" (which looks like the
- "original" _extended_ IBM character set from half a dozen years back), but
- is included in a slightly modified "PC-8 D/N Symbol Set". HOWEVER, I want
- to know how I can return to the other set in case I need, in the same file,
- any of those characters that are NOT in the D/N set, such as the "European"
- quotes at ASCII 174-175, or "degree" at 167, not to speak of cents and yens
- at 155, 157.
- >
- >> However, now I'm using the D/N symbol set all the time.
- >> It would be neater to change to that set just for the one character
- >> and return to the more standard one.
- >
- > How about using your normal Finnish/Swedish character set and
- > changing the keyboard table. For instnce : in the normal (o-with-two-
- > dots) position place a combination CTRL and that key to produce the
- > phentically equivivalent o-with-slash. Have a look in any ASCII
- > table for the values of the characters. The printer will produce the
- > correct ones. That is fine if you mix languages.
-
- > Alternatively, have two printer tables, one for each character set.
-
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