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From: stephens@latcs1.oz.au (Philip J Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Inverse characters
Message-ID: <8303@latcs1.oz.au>
Date: 11 Jul 90 11:39:03 GMT
References: <4274UD041948@NDSUVM1>
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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In article <4274UD041948@NDSUVM1>, UD041948@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
> During a recent programming session, I was trying to type INVERSE characters,
> and the worked fine in capital letters, but lowercase letters got screwed up,
> so the word "Name" in inverse looked something like "N%&!" (in inverse letters
> of course).  Anyone knows what causes this phenomena, and better yet, how to
> fix it?

  You didn't mention what computer you own.  However, a stock Apple ][+ (and
I think also an unenhanced Apple //e, but I might be wrong) do not support
inverse lower case letters in their character set, or flashing lower case for
that matter.  This is because the normal ASCII character set is 128 characters
in size (including control characters), so to include both inverse and flashing
modes they had to restrict the available number of characters to 64 for each
mode.  Besides, the Apple ][+ doesn't have normal lower case either, for no
good reason :-) 
  The Apple //e is suppose to have an extended character set (called mousetext
or something) in which inverse lower case appears.  However, since I only own
an Apple ][+ I'm not an expert on how to invoke the additional characters.
Someone else with more knowledge will have to step in with that information...

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