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- From: hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Extended characters with printf()
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- Date: 8 Nov 92 14:27:30 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- marco@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (John Perry) writes:
-
- >Does anyone know how to use the extended character set with printf()? For
- >example, how would I go about printing the "arrow" symbol?
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- As far as I know this is not possible. The control-chars (<32 ?) and the 'high'
- ascii chars (>127 ?) are just 'non-printable characters'.
- If I'm mistaken (which I surely hope :), let someone please correct me.
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