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From: jsmoller@jsmami.UUCP (Jesper Steen Moller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Here's an EASY one for you
Message-ID: <18f4a5c4.ARN12b9@jsmami.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 91 21:45:44 GMT
References: <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1080@cbmger.UUCP>
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmdeo!jsmami!jsmoller (Jesper S. Moller)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Danish SofTech
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In article <1080@cbmger.UUCP>, Peter Kittel GERMANY writes:

> In article <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
> >
> > I could put all 95 characters in the
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >lookup table
> >--
> >{Send your flames to =Marc Barrett=, he's used to 'em}
> 
> Ehm, I think here's a flame necessary: WHY THE H*LL DO YOU ONLY RECOGNIZE
> 95 CHARACTERS??? From my counting, the Amiga character set holds excatly
> double as many chars!!! And when I'm on my way: Why the h*ll are those
> quite normal characters always represented as dots (== non-chars) in
> hex dumps? Why?

Because some people think that the national ECMA chars are for fun,
and that an IBM charset would have been more appropriate. Ever logged
onto a BBS system without some ibm.font ?

(Actually it might help in hex-dumps, as the more dots there are, the
easier it is to spot text. BTW: 2.0 Type does use national chars. That's
probably your idea, right? ;-)
 
> Let's take this to .advocacy, but let also all programmers know, that
> there are more things than simply considering PAL or NTSC!

Even that is a problem for a lot of programs. Some just centre the
screen if it's a PAL machine...
 
> (You know what I really hate? Commercial fonts that cost big money and
> only provide those "all 95 characters". Insulting.)

Yeah, I recently finished the Danish fonts for ProVideo Post (I did
plus some time ago... and the 3 font packs). Them chauvenist b*stards
(thery're not on the net so I can discuss it with them) didn't do the
_full_ Amiga character map. They use a ridiculous 26 of the 95 chars
above 127, and these are only available in one version per size
(unlike the fonts). I had to cut away [\] and {|} (good old trick!)
to implement the Danisk chars (they cannot be used in UUCP news
unfortunately...)
The program is one of the best currently available, but it isn't very
kind to Europeans...


> Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 

At least you don't have a name like M0LLER, with a national character in it.
That's not funny. Try teaching an American or even a Brit how to pronounce
it...

  Regards, Jesper

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