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Re: Exporting files with accented characters



Edward,

I totally disagree. Ansification, while possible, is totally nonstandard. If the host system is Windows, CP437 accented characters work ok as long as you export using RTF or read the XY file as DOS CP437 using any compatible application like the free EditPad Lite where you can set up .XY (or .TXB) file type with DOS 437 encoding (Options, Configure File Types, Encoding tab). EditPad then reads correctly the Xy file as CP437 and makes it possible to copy its contents to other formats using Windows clipboard.

My point is to use only the 8-bit ASCII character set, and not the 
extended Bitstream character set. All Western accented characters are 
present in the CP437 character set. E.g. chr 132 is a umlaut (ä), but 
there is also chr 786 which is a umlaut. Just ignore any character 
beyond 255. Now then, the important thing is to provide an input method 
for CP437, but I think all Xy users who are in this situation know how 
to do it by just adding the characters or dead accents to one's keyboard.
Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

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Edward Mendelson kirjoitti 4.2.2022 klo 15:20:

If I want to create a Xy4 setup that can be used today by someone who needs accented characters, then ANSIfied XyWrite is 
essential. Ordinary XyWrite simply won’t work because it can’t share accented characters with anything else.