What was the ISO encoding did Amiga use for the A2000 systems?
Using Rick Stiles' Uedit, I got all sorts of useful characters to print
on inexpensive Canon BJ200 inkjets, even though they were not well
supported. Things like the little superscript "o" for degrees, or the
paragraph symbol were available with an "Amiga" key + character-key.
You just had to know the translation table. For Greek "theta" (O+/) I
had the choice of either lowercase or uppercase. XCad took them OK, and
displayed/plotted them cleanly, either from direct keyboard input or
when importing a text file.
I haven't yet gotten this PC keyboard to do this on my SuSE Linux system
:-(( Is it just ignorance on my part?
VariCad <http://www.varicad.com> uses the AutoCad "special character"
system: "~"+2 for the o+/ "theta". You can't have an uppercase style of
that one! With such a limited set of special characters, they don't
understand my desire for the capability left behind in the Amiga.
Stanley Long
Anchorage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > REBOL doesn't want your fingers to hurt.
>
> The fingers of Americans anyway. German fingers are supposed to hurt,
> I guess :-).
>
> On a German keyboard the ";" is shifted. It is on top of the "," key. The
> "<"/">" are on a separate key. It is even worse for "["/"]", because a German
> keyboard does not have these characters directly accessible at all. It has
> A-umlaut and U-umlaut in those places (corresponding to the ASCII character
> positions of "["/"]", which in the now-obsolete German 7-bit ISO encoding had
> been replaced with those umlauts). Most keyboards let you enter "["/"]" as
> Alt-A-Umlaut and Alt-U-Umlaut, but, of course, pressing the Alt key is even
> more awkard than pressing the Shift key. There are even some older computer
> systems which don't have "["/"]" in their German versions at all (e.g. German
> localized versions of 8-bit systems like Commodore-64) or which don't usually
> provide keyboards that have "["/"]" keys on them (e.g. Wang VS).
>
> --
> Holger Kruse
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
