Re: Looking for Chart of Ascii Characters

JeePster (sba...@erols.com) wrote --

> I am in search of a chart that gives a list of all possible characters
> within the text realm as well as the Exact keyboard input required to
> achieve this. An example of this would be a square � . I stumbled on
> this by chance. The keyboard input to achieve the � is 0911 with the ALT
> key held down. I have seen quite a few others such as a tre' kewl smiley
> face and a heart but I have yet to discover the required typing need to
> produce them.

Well, I've got about 5,000 characters in the text realm when I'm running
my Chinese system, but I don't think you want those. What characters are
available in the text realm on your machine depends on what kind of
machine it is and what software you are using. Since you mention an Alt
key and a square that isn't a square on my screen, I figger you're using
an IBM-type machine and the notorious W-----s operating environment.

The square is Murkystuff Clobberation's way of telling you there ain't no
character for the value you typed in with Alt and the numeric keypad.
Perhaps you did tap in 0911, but what reached me here was a byte with the
value 143 -- a value that, like 128, 129, 141, 142, 144, 157, and 158,
has no character assigned to it in the usual W-----s character set.

Smileys, hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds are some of the characters
that IBM thought it would be kewl to assign to the values in the control
range (0-31) back when the IBM Personal Computer was being designed. I
haven't got a table of those that I can post here, and I don't know if
you can use them in W-----s, but I do have an ASCIIfied table of
characters that you can type in with Alt and the numeric keypad in most
W-----s ware. It'll take some figgerin' out, but you asked for it....

I .--8nh---.--9nh---.--Anh---.--Bnh---. n .--Cnh---.--Dnh---.--Enh---.--Fnh---.
S |    128 |    144 |nbs 160 |deg 176 | 0 | A` 192 | -D 208 | a` 224 | d- 240 |
O |    129 |    145 |iex 161 |+/- 177 | 1 | A' 193 | N~ 209 | a' 225 | n~ 241 |
  |    130 |    146 | c| 162 | ^2 178 | 2 | A^ 194 | O` 210 | a^ 226 | o` 242 |
8 |    131 |    147 |stg 163 | ^3 179 | 3 | A~ 195 | O' 211 | a~ 227 | o' 243 |
8 |    132 |    148 |cur 164 |acu 180 | 4 | A" 196 | O^ 212 | a" 228 | o^ 244 |
5 |    133 |    149 |yen 165 | mu 181 | 5 | Ao 197 | O~ 213 | ao 229 | o~ 245 |
9 |    134 |    150 | |  166 |par 182 | 6 | AE 198 | O" 214 | ae 230 | o" 246 |
| |    135 |    151 |sec 167 |dot 183 | 7 | C, 199 |mul 215 | c, 231 |div 247 |
1 |    136 |    152 |uml 168 |ced 184 | 8 | E` 200 | O/ 216 | e` 232 | o/ 248 |
  |    137 |    153 |(C) 169 | ^1 185 | 9 | E' 201 | U` 217 | e' 233 | u` 249 |
  |    138 |    154 | ^a 170 | ^o 186 | A | E^ 202 | U' 218 | e^ 234 | u' 250 |
  |    139 |    155 | << 171 | >> 187 | B | E" 203 | U^ 219 | e" 235 | u^ 251 |
  |    140 |    156 |not 172 |1/4 188 | C | I` 204 | U" 220 | i` 236 | u" 252 |
  |    141 |    157 |sof 173 |1/2 189 | D | I' 205 | Y' 221 | i' 237 | y' 253 |
  |    142 |    158 |(R) 174 |3/4 190 | E | I^ 206 | |P 222 | i^ 238 | |p 254 |
  |    143 |    159 |mac 175 |iqu 191 | F | I" 207 |Gss 223 | i" 239 | y" 255 |
  `----(Illegal)---- -----Special-----'   `----Uppercase---- ----Lowercase----'
  nbs=non-break space; iex/iqu=inverted !/?; st(erlin)g; cur(rency); sec(tion);
  |=broken bar; uml(aut); ^+char=superscripted char; sof(t hyphen); acu(te
  accent); mac(ron); par(agraph); (raised) dot; ced(illa); char+[`'^~"o,/]=
  char+diacritic; AE/ae=AE/ae ligature; -D/d-, |P/|p=Icelandic eth, thorn;
  mul(tiplication sign); div(ision sign); Gss = German "sharp" (double) s.

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