[OS X TeX] DOS EXTENDED ASCII

[Alan Munn]

At 2:32 PM -0800 2/24/08, Eldon Lytle wrote:
>I HAVE A CHARACTER DISPLAY PROBLEM:
>
>   I'm using laTeX to format documentation for program
>code which includes special characters from an
>extension of ascii dating back to the DOS, Microsoft
>Basic, pre-Windows era. The write-up on it in the
>BASIC programming manual of the time simply identifies
>the character set in question as ASCII plus a field of
>extended codes (which happen to include an assortment
>of foreign language characters with diacritics, paired
>box shapes, and so on). Here, to be more specific, are
>some of the non-letter shapes:▐ ╡ ╢
>╟╒ ▓  ░. The ASCII values to
>print them from BASIC with  'PRINT CHR$(ascii)' are
>given, but so far, I have been unable to connect the
>character set as a whole with any laTeX designation(s)
>that I can load as an 'inputenc' option. (TeXShop
>displays them initially but they don't appear in the
>pdf file and are thereafter replaced with a question
>mark). Any assistance  in solving this problem would
>be appreciated.
>
>Eldon Lytle
>

This is a font problem more than an encoding 
problem.  If the standard fonts don't have the 
glyphs a code page won't work, I think.

However, you might want to check the ascii package:

<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ascii.html>

If this is the the right character set you want.

If want you need is this code page: 
<http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/extended_ASCII.html>

then this thread on c.t.t might help:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_frm/thread/2a6585dc5d901dd/499671753d259de6?hl=en&lnk=st&q=extended+ascii+latex#499671753d259de6>

Alan

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