From: "Martin Peach" <martin AT vr-labs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: foreign char
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:40:06 -0500
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Robert L. <vlad3 AT sympatico DOT ca> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> i can't write char with accent ( é à ê ) using djgpp.
> it's certainly an ASCII setting i haven't see.
> i have try \x90 ( É ) but it's not this char djgpp output.
> (  cout<<"\x90"; )
> And with this char, the warning
> escape sequence out of range of character
ASCII only goes up to 0x7F. The A in ASCII stands for American. Americans
don't know about accents, at least not back in the days of teletype
machines..:(. There are no accented characters in ASCII. Unamerican
characters may be represented by multi-byte sequences, hence they are out of
range of char, which is one byte long.
\/\/\/*= Martin