Re: ANSI vs ASCII

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Hi:
 Maybe you've hit on the answer. I thought the XYWRITE arrow for the
paragraph marker was desimal 20. Maybe it is something different (possibly
above 128). Can anyone identify the code nbr for the paragraph arrow used by
XYW??
DG

"..." (of YESSS) wrote:

>     I thought that for characters less
>     than 128, the terms ANSI and ASCII
>     were synonymous.
>     --Richard Giering 
>
> Hi, Dick. I wouldn't presume to try to parse that
> NB response, but will say that the term "lower 128"
> is used loosely to distinguish <128 characters from
> extended char sets; what's usually actually meant
> is "printable" ascii, chars 32-127. Chars 0-31 are
> control chars universally. xyWrite fuzzes that
> a little since it puts all 256 at your disposal
> for realworld printing purposes, usually directly,
> sometimes as multibyte substitutes for chars
> xyWrite itself reserves as control chars.
>
> That ill-favored draft font seems to be the price
> xyWin paid to retain the IBM extended char set. The
> SmartWords switch to the ANSI char set erases the
> aesthetic issue, but is a porting headache for my xpl,
> which often uses extended char set chars that choke
> in winNB's brave new ANSI world. Gripes like that
> were exactly what TTG avoided by sticking with
> the IBM extended char set for xyWin.
>
> Dunno whether you can or would want to use any
> of them for the winNB paragraph symbol, but the only
> <32 chars I've been able to get it to render are the
> four arrowheads, dec 16, 17, 30, and 31. ... Ciao.           --a
>
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