From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Jason M. Daniels)
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Subject: Re: Rhide and OMEGA
Date: 6 Jun 1997 16:41:43 GMT
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George Foot (mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
> Kappas Ioannis (giannisk AT delta DOT edu DOT gr) wrote:
> : Why when I press the Greek character Omega (ascii 224) in Rhide does not appear
> : on the screen? Can anybody help me please?

> Robert Hoehne posted the reason for this; can I point out that for now you
> could escape it in character or string constants:

> printf("Character 224: \224\n");

> This is not a special feature of printf; it works in any string constant
> by inserting the specified character number.

> Incidentally, does anyone know how to follow the above character with a
> number? An obvious hack is to write the number as an ASCII code as well,
> but this is a bit unpleasant.

Why not do this: (btw, I don't think \224 is correct above, I know you 
can put octal and hex but I don't think decimal)

printf("Character followed by number: %c5.\n",224);

The integer 224 gets cast properly into a character and the display is as 
expected.

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