Dear Carl
Thank you very much. The charset was exactly what I was looking
for. When I download newspaper or magazine articles from Factiva and
sometimes from Lexis and Westlaw, I find that those services use the
special characters as some sort of formatting code that has no bearing for
me but appear in the material when viewed in text mode. Invariably I
print out the material as plain text in universal condensed and I find the
special characters distracting. I can now identify the special characters
and their escape codes that appear in the downloadeded material and delete them
easily using search and replace.
Again much appreciated.
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To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx href="xywrite@xxxxxxxxxywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:43
AM
Subject: Re: Help withidentifying escake
codes for special characters.
From: "Avrom Fischer" mailto:avromf@xxxxxxxx
Avrom:
Not
sure I fully understand your question, but here goes anway... There's a file
called CHARSET (attached to this message), part of the Xy4 factory
distribution, which lists all characters in the extended XyWrite (a/k/a
Speedo) character set, along with their character numbers. You may find the
information you need by searching this file.
Also, there is a U2
routine called XYCHAR, which is an aid to putting unusual characters (or any
character) to the screen. It accepts an argument that is either a character
number or a descriptive string. (To use descriptive strings, file CHARSET must
be present in Editor's directory.) For example:
XYCHAR
886
XYCHAR thorn
Hope this
helps.
--
Carl Distefano
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