Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/10/02:24:05
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> > > > A better candidate would be then YEN symbol. :o)
> > >
> > > I don't know about US keyboards, but my UK device has an otherwise
> > > useless key to the left of the 1 digit, under Esc, which has three
> > > symbols on it: ` =AC and |, although to get | I push shift-\.
> > >
> > > Perhaps a use could be made for the =AC character? I've no idea how
> > > it'll come out on your machines, but on my system it's a top right
> > > hand corner of a single thickness ASCII box!
>=20
> > Please tell me you're joking about using the | symbol! That is
> > the DOS pipe. Don't you use pipes? The ` key is used by 4DOS
> > for quoting aliases, etc...
>=20
> I was only suggesting the silly =AC. There's got to be /some/ use for
> the bloody thing. I know full well about pipes and quoting :-)
>=20
> > Also it is a valid filename char.
> > The M symbol that you used doesn't appear on american keyboards
> > also. It does however display on my screen.
>=20
> An M symbol? You see it as an M-like thing? Wow!
It shows up as a small capital M on my screen. It could be
because I'm using the Cyrillic 8x8 font on the 80x50 screen in
Linux though. I'm not russian, I just like the way that the
lower 128 characters look with that font. The upper characters
are all funky russian letters. I suspect that the "M" is a
currency symbol or something else in russian.
> Still, if it's not on US keyboards, it's a dodo as far as using it
> for anything goes...
What is the decimal ascii code for that key?
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