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From: rond@pro-grouch.cts.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Inverse characters
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Date: 12 Jul 90 10:11:15 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from UD041948@NDSUVM1.BITNET

> 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?
 
Your problem is that the //e, //c, and //gs have two different character sets
in video ROM...  Mousetext and normal.  To display inverse lowercase at all
you need to be in mousetext mode, so if it gets turned off, all you will see
is the same characters from the normal set, which happen to be flashing
symbols and numbers.  To turn mousetext back on, just store something into
$C00F.  Or you can "PRINT CHR$(27)" from BASIC.

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