[OS X TeX] DOS EXTENDED ASCII

[Eldon Lytle]

Thanks for the pointers. I'll check them out.
Eldon

--- Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:

> 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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