Re: High-ascii characters through the clipboard

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

At 05:46 PM 10/26/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I have discovered a curious problem with XyWin. If I copy high-ascii
>characters (for example, stressed vowels) from another Windows program
>to XyWin through the clipboard, they are apparently OK in XyWin but they
>are not well interpreted by other programs when I import an Xy file. The
>problem is similar to what happens when the accent table is not loaded
>in XyWin or XyWrite for DOS 4.017. Even more, if I attempt to search
>those characters (creating them in my command line via the keyboard,
>i.e., using the s1 functions), they are not located by Xy. Maybe the
>question is related to ASCII/ANSI problems that other members of this
>list have mentioned these days? Probably not.
>Best regards,

To leap in here, in my relative ignorance: this probably has to do with the
Xy characters that are 3-bytes or even 5-bytes (although they appear
on-screen as one character). I'd suggest you take look at the actual hex in
some Xy file with those characters. You can see the hex in various ways
(DEBUG.EXE or LIST.COM or, in a way, just with DOS' TYPE command).

Robert Holmgren is the expert on this and has a file explaining 3-byte and
5-byte codes (name forgotten) you can download.

Harry

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx