special symbol

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bob Stockler propounded (on Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:16:04PM -0400):
| On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0500, Richard D. Williams wrote:
| | 
| | Does anyone know the code to produce this symbol,  §?   
| 
| On an SCO ScoTerm Window it's chr("167").

Well, in Richard's email, it's chr("167"), agreed.  And it's still
char('167") on your machine, as it is on everyone elses's.

But what is displayed "depends(Pat.Pend)" :-)

On the scoterm window on which I'm looking at the message, as user
'appl', I see an underlined 'o'. There's NO mapchan table in effect.

But on a scoterm for 'jpr', I see the "section sign", which is like two
overlayed 'S', one a tad above the other. The IBM mapchan is in place.

And on character terminals here, same thing: what I see is a function of
what mapchanneling is in effect.

If I generate an underscored 'o' on my ibm-mapchan'd screen (using the
compose sequence 'CTL-_ o -'), then on my non-mapchan'd screen, it looks
like a double vertical line: º .

So until Richard tells us, we really do not know what he is seeking to
display (or print, which will lead to a whole kettle of other fish).


-- 
JP