[Sca-cooks] The IBM (DOS) Extended ASCII Character set,was OOP? Hispanic cookie question [Resend]

[Martin G. Diehl]

Huette von Ahrens wrote:
> 
> I am sorry, Martin, but most of what you have
> listed isn't very useful in showing how to use
> or access the Extended ASCII Character set.

You are quite correct.  

Your question is answered below.  

At the time, I was thinking (writing) about how the 
issue arises rather than how to solve the puzzle.  

(i.e. analysis v. synthesis, but with analysis 
leading 1 to 0 at half time)

Thank you for the new (accurate) insight about my 
writing.  It tells me that I should proofread for 
readability and pertinence in addition to content.  

> Here is the best website I know of with
> instructions on how to use the set.
> 
> For those of us with PCs, here is the website:
> 
> http://telecom.tbi.net/asc-ibm.html

That is a good reference for the PC character set.  

Please note that the tables provided on that page and 
also on many other related pages are images (e.g. 
'asc-ibm1.gif') instead of the actual codes.  

[snip]

> >From what I have been reading, computers that
> understand Unicode will understand ASCII. Those
> using Java should understand ASCII, but some
> characters don't always show up correctly.
> 
> Here is an interesting discussion of this:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII
> 
> Here is a tutorial on character code issues:
> 
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

Excellent references: noted; bookmarked; printed.   
Did I read them yet? -- Soon ... or later.  <g> 

In Korpela, Jukka; "A tutorial on character code issues";
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#latin1 ... 
you see an array of characters which correspond to 
ISO Latin 1, code positions 160 - 255.   

It may be possible to select and copy those characters 
(or individual characters) from the web page to a 
document or eMail composition window.  You could also 
save them to a local document for later use.  In my 
case, I use TextPad -- a very good plain text editor 
available from http://www.textpad.com/ -- free trial.  

e.g. (copied from the web page and pasted here) 

  ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ­ ® ¯
° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ 

It is by no means assured that every recipient saw the 
same results as on the source web page.  YMMV.  

BTW, this is how I composed my earlier response -- and I 
agree in advance that this is, at best, a clumsy method.  

I use Netscape 4.7x for eMail; send plain text; NOT HTML.  

> Huette
> 
> 
> --- "Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl at nac.net> wrote:
> 
> > Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
> > >
> > > >baking.  They are called buñuelos.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately this comes out as gibberish on my
> > > computer.  Please what is the name without the
> > > special characters?
> > >
> > > Ranvaig
> > >
> > > Sorry, I thought it would be readable. Bunuelos.
> > > There's a tilda ~ over the N which gives it a NY 
> > > sound (as in "nyah-nyah" not "nylon").

Thanks for explaining the sound of an ñ or Ñ.  

> > > Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
> > > Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> >
> > Bunuelos ... and with the tilde N, Buñuelos 
> > (I hope all of you see it!)

[snip]

> > I know, you're thinking, "And this has what to do 
> > with cooking?" ... Well, you'll thank me if you 
> > ever have to read a recipe from an Old English 
> > Manuscript.  <g>
> > ... or even Beowabbit, for that matter.

[snip]

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl

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