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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Apr 1999.
Re: extended characters

Re: extended characters

.----- On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:45:41 -0400, Michael Graham posted:
|
|a technical question
|
|i'm trying to figure out if it is possible to include extended ascii
|characters in a web page (as they are included in the attached table
|ascii2.gif - particularily #176, 240, 254 and 255)
|
|the convention
| <   &#---;   >
|which works to call characters from the standard ascii table, does not
|work for the extended table, instead you end up with IS0 entities
|(accented characters etc.)
|
|i'm trying to access the characters that appear in DOS when you hold the
|<alt> key and type a 3 digit reference number on the number pad
|
|if anybody knows how or whether this is possible in a web environment,
|please let me know
|
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You need to use a value, which I believe is in unicode but I'm not sure.
This doesn't allow for most of the extended DOS characters, but adds a lot
more.
Since the DOS characters are nonstandard (for dos and dos alone) the only
way to do it is to copy+paste them into the webpage - but it will look ugly
on anything apart from DOS. You could also make a GIF of whatever you are
trying to put into the page ... it's clunky but it works.

-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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Subject: Re: extended characters
Date: 1999/04/21
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