Re: Help -- Tilde

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Harry Binswanger  Fri, 05 Jan
2001 16:45:18 -0500

-> And as for keyboards not having a tilde-key, I've never heard
-> ot that but if it's true (which is nigh on to impossible) you
-> can enter the ASCII in either DOS or XY by holding down
-> ctrl+alt while entering 126

Nope nope nope. Will work in DOS, won't work in Xy. Not if the
tilde is used as the Discretionary Hyphen. Ctrl-Alt-1,2,6 will
encode a 3-byte character that displays as a tilde in Xy but which
actually consists of Ascii-255 plus "7E" (hex notation for 126
decimal). This 3-byte character is meaningless outside of XyWrite,
doesn't display as a tilde in DOS or Windows, and will NOT work in
URLs. However, if you assign the tilde (3-byte or 1-byte form) to a
key in your .KBD file, pressing that key *will* produce a real
(1-byte) tilde. As others have pointed out, a 1-byte tilde will be
visible only in eXPanded view unless default DH is set to a
character other than Ascii-126.

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Carl Distefano
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