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- From: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Extended characters with printf()
- Message-ID: <721416566.3634@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:29:27 GMT
- References: <HyewTB4w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> <hjv.721232850@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
- Reply-To: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk (Mathew Lodge)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
- Lines: 22
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- In article <hjv.721232850@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra) writes:
- >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?
- >
- >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.
-
- If you're going the TOS route to output (rather than the VDI route) then use
- the BIOS Bconout routines, and use device 5. Output on this device is not
- interpreted by the VT52 emulator and you get all the available characters.
- This is documented in most ST books.
-
- >Hendrik Jan Veenstra hjv@phil.ruu.nl * How can I save my dreams
-
- Mat
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