Re: Apocalypse 12

Well, it is included in the extended ASCII table

I looked through my table of IBM Extended ASCII, and didn't find it. Decimal 187 is one of the framing characters (for drawing character-based screen windows and stuff), specifically the double-line upper-right-corner. (I used to use the framing characters all the time, mostly in comments and documentation, but also for character-based window borders and things, back in the DOS days.) I've never seen this double-greater-than-sign character before in my life, as far as I know. Hopefully I won't need parallel dispatch for very much, because I really like my Avant Stellar keyboard and have no intentions of switching to a European keyboard or whatever is needed to type unicode characters.

I don't mind if the language _supports_ unicode; I think it's wrong to *require* it though.

;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}} split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print

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Re: Re: Apocalypse 12 by TwistedGreen (Sexton) on Apr 23, 2004 at 19:58 UTC
Take a look at characters 174 (Ť) and 175 (ť) in the (an?) extended ASCII table and they should be there.	[reply]
Re: Apocalypse 12 by jonadab (Parson) on Apr 23, 2004 at 20:40 UTC
Take a look at characters 174 and 175 I will when I get home. (The chart is an appendix in my ITT Advanced Basic manual...) But I no longer use DOS as my primary operating system, and the system I do use now does not support IBM Extended ASCII as far as I am aware, nor does it provide a mechanism for typing characters above decimal 126 or below decimal 32. Holding alt while typing on the keypad does application-dependent things; in Mozilla, it seems to have something to do with bookmarks or the history. Update: Oh, is that what those are? Sure enough, I guess. They look rather different on my chart (rather more vertically stretched), but that's basically just a font difference. Still, as I said, I don't have any way AFAIK to type in these characters in my current operating environment. Here's hoping that >> will work. `;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}` `split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print`	[reply]


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