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| Thread ID: 28673 | 2002-12-27 21:17:00 | Freeware to Print the Ascii table | peter_mundy (2855) | Press F1 |
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| 109327 | 2002-12-27 21:17:00 | Saturday, 28 December 2002, 10:14:46:a.m. Hi all, Have a simple problem. From time to time I need to "print/type" Ascii symbols eg Alt+156 for £ symbol, Alt+157 for ¥ symbol. Does anyone know a freeware program/utility that will allow me to view the Ascii table and its keystroke equivalents to screen and/or print it hardcopy for future reference? Thanks for your help Peter Mundy |
peter_mundy (2855) | ||
| 109328 | 2002-12-27 21:25:00 | It should be built into the system.. it's called "charmap",(on 98 and other Os's) and is found in the system tools > accessories menu (i think) Sorry i can't be bothered getting of my lazy butt & walking 3 metres to have a look at the windows box to find the exact location of the shortcut to this prog, but i'm sure you will be able to find it :D You may have to install it of the 'doze disk as i did when Susan pointed it out to me. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 109329 | 2002-12-27 21:39:00 | Programs/Accesories/System Tools/Character Map. (just to help out with those 3 meters) |
mark c (247) | ||
| 109330 | 2002-12-27 22:04:00 | Several pages come up in Google which you could print off for reference. One is at http://www.asciitable.com/ If that doesn't suit just type in "ascii table" and take your pick. | tommy (2826) | ||
| 109331 | 2002-12-28 00:50:00 | You will indeed find ASCII tables . You will certainly find the US ASCII subset used in Microsoft "english" . The DOS manuals had a lot of pages at the back with the various others used in MS/IBM/DR Dos . But there are many more of them . I once started a file folder (the brown manila type ;-)) which started with copies of a series of articles in the 70s by Bemer who was one of the key workers in the Standards process . That folder was over 2" thick . Apart from tables in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal -- all of which are commonly used, there are tables (all all the bases) with the four flavours of parity (odd, even, on, and off), there's the 6-bit capitals only version used on some DEC minis . And it's going to get worse . Unicode . :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 109332 | 2002-12-29 09:35:00 | Many printer manuals have (or used to have) ASCII tables included - often in the Appendix. If you use Charmap check what font you have selected in the Charmap dialogue box - I think the character sets can vary depending which font is selected. | Robin S_ (86) | ||
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