Export field separator question

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:38:14PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
| 
| So this questions is an excellent one.  BTW in my book the 253 is a 
| superscript 2 kind of thing, the y with two dots is 152.

I guess it depends on the character set you're using.

I created the file "doit" on my SCO OSR 5.0.6 UNIX system
and on my Windows Me box.  It contained:

  BEGIN { for (i=1;i<=255;i++) printf "%3d - %c\n", i, i }

I executed this command line on each system:

  gawk -f doit | less

The little y with two dots over it was:

UNIX    - character 255
Windows - character 152

On UNIX character 253 was a little y with an accent mark (single
quote) centered over it.

On Windows character 253 was a litte 2, centered in the top half
of the character cell.

Bob

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