Extended Character Set Test

[jadaro2600]

This is just a test for people who use ASCII art, there should be some character codes available to make the art more understandable.

Using your character map from the accessories menue on a windows start-bar, you can browse through font characters.  Often they will contain additional unicode or 'alt' coded characters.

You can highlight a character you wish to use and on the status bar at the bottom of the character map application, it will give you an 'alt' code.

By moving your cursor to the position where you want the character in the text box, hit and hold the 'alt' button and on the keypad, type in the numerical code for that character and it should appear.

For instance, ꜷ isn't on the keyboard.  But it can be cut and pasted from the character map application.

Unfortunately, the alt codes don't work for me on linux, but there is an add-on here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10573 which supports the features I've talked about.

This addon supposedly adds multilingual unicode character insertion methods.  I will test it below, I'm certain the the unicode character can be recognized by most operating system, but I'm not sure if they're completely universal or not.

â"Œâ"´â"¬â"â"¼â•'╧╝

Some boxes / lines ..please reply if you see something other than lines above.

Also, post if you have other suggestions.

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the character set from unicode was called 'box drawing'.  this set can be seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters in action, as they should appear, if all that you see is squares, then your character set or font set should probably be upgraded.

...now, if only they made unicode characters for electronic components, then all we would need are the codes, and wouldn't have to worry with extremely complicated software to design circuits.

[Trino Cularoid]

For instance, ꜷ isn't on the keyboard.

Above character not showing here.

â"Œâ"´â"¬â"â"¼â•'╧╝
Some boxes / lines ..please reply if you see something other than lines above.

These do show.

On Windows' Character Map with font Arial, they are for example in

• Character set: Unicode ¦ Group by: Unicode Subrange ¦ Unicode Subrange: Box Drawings
or
• Character set: DOS: Western Europe

Another useful character is sometimes the No-Break Space (U+00A0) from Character Map, e. g. 4.7 ÂµF, 4.5 kg, 120 g, 0.5 mm², -273.15 Â°C (here used with _sub or ^sup to make the space smaller since font size=50% or 0.5em is disabled). If you change the window size then there will be no break between quantities and units.

[CompuTutor]

0000-0127 = Standard ASCII Character Set (Zero Inclusive = 128)
0128-0255 = Extended ASCII Character Set (0128 Inclusive = 128)

Hold down either shift key,
enter the four digits from
your numeric keyboard,
then release your shift key.

Some keyboards wont work on
the numerals above the letters...

You can copy and past this into a non-DOS text file
like .RTF or .DOC and change your font selection
to see how they differ from code page to code page.

0128  â,¬
0129  
0130  ‚
0131  Æ'
0132  „
0133  …
0134  †
0135  ‡
0136  ˆ
0137  ‰
0138  Å 
0139  ‹
0140  Å'
0141  
0142  Ž
0143  
0144  
0145  ‘
0146  ’
0147  “
0148  ”
0149  •
0150  â€"
0151  â€"
0152  Ëœ
0153  â,,¢
0154  Å¡
0155  ›
0156  Å"
0157  
0158  ž
0159  Ÿ
0160    (Translucent Block)
0161  ¡
0162  ¢
0163  £
0164  ¤
0165  Â¥
0166  ¦
0167  §
0168  ¨
0169  ©
0170  ª
0171  «
0172  ¬
0173  ­ (Translucent Pipe | )
0174  ®
0175  ¯
0176  °
0177  ±
0178  ²
0179  ³
0180  ´
0181  µ
0182  ¶
0183  ·
0184  ¸
0185  ¹
0186  º
0187  »
0188  ¼
0189  ½
0190  ¾
0191  ¿
0192  À
0193  Á
0194  Ã,
0195  Ã
0196  Ã,,
0197  Ã...
0198  Æ
0199  Ç
0200  È
0201  É
0202  Ê
0203  Ë
0204  ÃŒ
0205  Í
0206  ÃŽ
0207  Ï
0208  Ð
0209  Ã'
0210  Ã'
0211  Ã"
0212  Ã"
0213  Õ
0214  Ö
0215  ×
0216  Ø
0217  Ù
0218  Ú
0219  Û
0220  Ãœ
0221  Ý
0222  Þ
0223  ß
0224  à
0225  á
0226  â
0227  ã
0228  ä
0229  Ã¥
0230  æ
0231  ç
0232  è
0233  é
0234  ê
0235  ë
0236  ì
0237  í
0238  î
0239  ï
0240  ð
0241  ñ
0242  ò
0243  ó
0244  ô
0245  õ
0246  ö
0247  ÷
0248  ø
0249  ù
0250  ú
0251  û
0252  ü
0253  ý
0254  þ
0255  ÿ

[jadaro2600]

Thankyou for this, both of you.

I may also mention that the firefox addon works quite well, I can simply create a string of special characters and insert them into a text box by copying the characters.