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Re: Extended ascii characters in emacs lisp
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: Extended ascii characters in emacs lisp |
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:31:11 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Saturday, 21 April 2012 19:49:40 UTC+8, Richard H Lee wrote:
> What I did not originally realise was that extended ascii is not really
> that well supported in Linux (my os), as it is more of a DOS / Windows
> standard.
I guess you mean the graphics drawing characters of codepage-437, which is very
definitely a DOS relic. Even Windows support for it these days is not
widespread outside of the command console.
Unicode has these characters and more. See etc/charsets/IBM437.map in the Emacs
source distribution (or installed under /usr/share/emacs or similar path), or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 for mappings.