--- C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Themos Tsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Those characters used to work for a specific IBM font on the > > RS/6000. I believe that the encoding is cp850 or ibm850. When > > you use a font with an iso8859 encoding, you get the mess you > > describe.
A little more info on this - after tracking the set character output back through the code, it looks like i-output.boot.pamphlet is where the font definitions take place. Some of the definitions appear using this form: SETANDFILEQ($plainSpecialCharacters0,[ EBCDIC( 78), -- upper left corner (+) EBCDIC( 78), -- upper right corner (+) etc. EBCDIC would appear to refer to Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, apparently an alternative to ASCII. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC Judging by the chart on wikipedia, 78 would be 4E in hexadecimal which is indeed the + character. plainRTspecialCharacters seems to hold definitions not relying on the EBCDIC encoding. As near as I can tell there are several styles of character output for EBCDIC plain and default, and the RT definitions which appear to be the ones which work on modern systems. Interesting. I wonder how much flexibility is built into this arrangement. Perhaps character sets which look better than either default or plain could be selected. Cheers, CY ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link $420k for $1,399/mo. Think You Pay Too Much For Your Mortgage? Find Out! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre _______________________________________________ Axiom-mail mailing list Axiom-mail@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail