Re: extended characters
From Andrew Carpenter <new...@gloucestershire.freeserve.co.uk>
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· 21 Apr 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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He should use the windows font "terminal". that has the characters he wants, along with all the other DOS characters :O) it comes as standard with windows, from 3.1 to 98 (AFAIK) Andrew Martin Atkins wrote in message <371...@news.vossnet.net>... >.----- 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 >| >'---------------------------------- > >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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