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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: oohoseoo AT aol DOT com (OoHOSEoO), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:00:26 +0000
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Subject: Re: Help: Extended Chars in DOS
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oohoseoo AT aol DOT com (OoHOSEoO) wrote:

> I can't seem to get the ascii drawing characters to show up in my programs..
> they are printed as is.. anyone have an explaination, and how I can fix this? 
> 
> Example of drawing chars I am refering to:  
>        ÉI»   
>        º º       should draw a small box like this:  __
>        EI¼                                                       |__|

Even when I'm not sure what you get, because e-mail isn't good for graphic 
chars, my guess is that you are using Winblows text editor and running the 
program in DOS. As in USA Winblows uses ISO Latin-1 and DOS the ANSI CP437 the 
characters over 127 are totally different. Just edit the source with a DOS 
editor.
I'll suggest you to use my editor (v2apps/edi*.zip), you'll be able to see the 
text in both encodings (ISO and ANSI) without exiting the editor or changing 
your code. In this way you'll understand better what's going on.

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