Chr

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, RKreiss1 wrote:

> Looking at the character table in fp 5.6.07 help, it indicates that
> chr("251") is either a check mark of the square root sign  hex FB.  This is
> fine with me as it suites my purpose either way.
> 
> However when I use it in programming, ck=chr("251") it displays as left
> brace { which is chr('123") hex 7B.
> 
> What I am doing is having items selected from a list box and I wanted to add
> a checkmark next to the item(s) selected.
> 
> What I would like to know, is why I am not getting the expected character.

It sounds like something is stripping the 8th bit. Decimal 251 is hex FB.

Is this in a terminal emulation environment? Serial, telnet, SSH? What 
emulator? What terminal type?

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