On Sat, 13 May 2000, Piero wrote:
>I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell
>what's a Charset?
>
> On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote:
>> Paul,
>> thanks for the respons.I'm reassured.
>> Eric
Hi Piero,
A charset is a Character Set. In most european countries, there are
different character sets in use on computers. Like in French there are
special keys on the keyboard for letter with accents, cedille and so on,
as there are special keys for typical characters for Norwegian and
Swedish.
Of course, pressing such a key has little use if the computer does not
know what character it should display on the screen. Like if you press ^
and always a = pops up, that is annoying. A character set is a translation
table. Set the machine to characterset 25 (just picking a number), and the
machine knows that when you press the key with scan code 0 113 should show
a ^ sign. Where as in for instance charset 9 the same key would yield a
" sign.
A good example too is the $ sign. Shift -4 on the standard US keyboard. In
the UK, that $ sign is replaced by the pound-sign (I think).
Hope this clears things up.
Paul
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