Re: Upper ASCII characters in XyWrite under vDosXy

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Carl.

Screenshots of your file opened in expanded mode are linked below. Here
are the differences between what I see and what you see:


128: euro instead of C cedilla
141: infinity instead of i grave
152: lower case phi instead of y umlaut
158: upper case phi instead of peseta
159: [159] plus florin sign instead of only florin sign
166: box-drawing character instead of ordinal female
167: box-drawing character instead of ordinal male
208: [208] plus box-drawing character instead of only box-drawing character
209: [209] plus box-drawing character instead of only box-drawing character
213: i grave instead of box-drawing character
231: [231] plus tau small instead of only tau small
232: [232][314] instead of phi capital
236: [236][319] instead of infinity
237: [237] plus phi small instead of phi small
242: [242] plus greater than or equal instead of only greater than or equal
243: [243] plus less than or equal instead of only less than or equal
244: [244] plus vertical line instead of upper integral
245: [245][310] instead of lower integral

http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/ASCUPPER1.jpg
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/ASCUPPER2.jpg
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/ASCUPPER3.jpg
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/ASCUPPER4.jpg
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/ASCUPPER5.jpg
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/ASCUPPER6.jpg

As you say, the presence of characters 174 and 175 mean that the display
is contorted if I open the file in draft view. However, a copy of the
file with those two characters omitted shows other differences in draft
view. For example, 181-184 display as [283], [289], [275], and [276].


Does this suggest a solution?

Thanks!
Martin

On 26.04.2015 01:06, Carl Distefano wrote:

Reply to note from "Martin J. Osborne" 
Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:10:06 +0300

Martin,


No,  isn't embedded into the document ... and putting
 explicitly into the document doesn't make any difference
(should it?).


OK, let's step back for a moment. Let's take the Speedo characters
out of the equation. After all, these are 3-byte characters that
aren't part of the US Ascii charset. (For example, the [294] small
alpha is actually three Ascii chars, 254, 38 and 0, that display as
one in Xy.) Let's focus on the range of 1-byte upper Ascii chars that
*can* be displayed in XyWrite, i.e., Ascii 128-253. (Recall that, in
Xy4, 254 and 255 are control characters and can't be displayed in 1-
byte form.) Here's a link showing how 128-253 display for me in Xy4-
vDosXy, with CHCP 437 and DF LA=437:

http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/upperasc.htm

The file that I used for these screen shots is attached. CAll it in
XyWrite -- be sure to use eXPanded view: CA/100 ASCUPPER.TXT;
otherwrise the lines with Ascii 174 and 175 won't display correctly
-- and compare what you get to what I get. Do they differ? If so,
where? (Note, by the way, that Ascii 224 is a small alpha in CP 437.)



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