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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Here's an EASY one for you
Message-ID: <1097@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 07:01:13 GMT
References: <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1080@cbmger.UUCP> <18f73ee5.ARN18a5@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <18f73ee5.ARN18a5@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>In article <1080@cbmger.UUCP>, Peter Kittel GERMANY writes:
>
>> 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
>
> and if I had a 'read the bitmap from the font'
>program, I could do it, I guess. But I don't. Yet. Is anyone going to answer
>that one? [Remember - Arexx solutions only!]

Sorry, not yet ARexx literate. In AmigaBasic:
FOR i=2 to 15:IF i=8 then i=10  ' skip Ctrl chars
PRINT i,:FOR j=0 to 15:PRINT CHR$(i*16+j);"  ";:NEXT:PRINT:NEXT

>Manipulating characters that are generated by deadkeys is, to my eyes, a
>hardship that I don't want to go through.  

You don't need to consider dead keys. You just design the final accented
chars. And thus things get really easy: For most of these MSB chars, you
can duplicate the entry for one pure char with MSB==0 and simply add a
little accent or umlaut to it, easy!

>Who is going to use ASCII 193 in the normal scheme of things?

Well, it's like all those security checks in a program: Were you *really*
able to allocate those 16 bytes? Many people don't check for such little
things, but one day, on a special situation: poof!

>[Offhand, I don't know what ASCII 193 even is :-)]

From AmigaBasic manual, appendix A: it's a capital A with aigu accent.

>Those things with accents, graves, and umlauts on them?  Removing all that
>extraneous data makes [the ascii part of] dumps easier to read!  Obviously!
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^           ^^^^^^ AAARRRRGGH!!!
1. The "other" part is also ascii, 2. I find it more readable when there
are not suddenly holes in plain text.

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