From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: foreign char
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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:18:33 GMT
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:01:11 -0500, "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]"
<moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote:

>Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> >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.
>>
>> But what about iso-8859-1, which OP is probably trying to refer to?
>> It uses the negative characters (char)-96 to (char)-1 to store
>> precomposed characters that are commonly used in Western writing.
>
>Those 'negative chars' are just the 2's compliment of normal unsigned char's.
>So they correspond to char's with the 8th bit set.

So how do you get them into a string?  OP was trying to use escape
syntax to get chars with the 8th bit set, but the compiler was
complaining.


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