non-alphabetic characters

[Bob Rasmussen]

In general, this can work well if all players agree on what character set 
is being used.

With AnzioWin as the terminal emulator, specifically:

1) Set the character set for screen (in Anzio) to "ISO", which means 
ISO-8859-1 (also known as Latin-1) on US Windows installations. This will 
allow not only the characters you mentioned, but also many accented 
characters as used in Western European languages.

2) Set screen font to "Courier New". Other fonts will be used if needed 
for specific characters (which they should not be, for the ISO set).

3) Type special characters by one of the MANY ways possible in Windows, 
such as a) as shown on a key, b) alt-numeric-pad equivalent, c) copy/paste 
from Charmap utility, d) configure keyboard for US-International and type 
corresponding keys/combinations.

4) Or, assign special keys to the AnzioWin toolbar.

5) Or, use AnzioWin's control key combinations, such as ctrl-tilde then 
"n" for "ñ".

6) Do all printing through AnzioWin, with AnzioWin's "Character set for 
printing" set to ISO.

7) Use printwiz.prt printer definition file to cause filePro to issue 
PWML, or use an HP Laserjet printer definition that configures for 
ISO-8859-1.

Possible gotcha: if the terminal type entry used on the filePro end does 
not properly switch in and out of "graphics" (linedraw) mode, that could 
be a problem. I don't know, right off, which do and which might not.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list wrote:

> I realize that the visual representation of a character between 0x80 and
> 0xff depends on the character/symbol set that is in use.
>
> Still, for one of my customers it would be really handy if descriptions
> could embody symbols for trademark, copyright, feet ('), inches ("),
> degree...
>
> Displaying them is one challenge, entering them from a keyboard another,
> and hardcopy yet another.
>
> I can think of some klooges, but where is the elegant solution?
>
>
> -- 
> JP
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