Euro on old computers

From: Philip.Belben_at_PowerTech.co.uk <(Philip.Belben_at_PowerTech.co.uk)>
Date: Wed Feb 3 05:43:44 1999

>> ObCC: so what did you UKans do to get your funny-looking L on
>> computers, terminals, and printers imported from ASCII-speaking
>> countries?
>
> It's character 0xA3 (decimal 163, octal 243) in ISO Latin 1, and most
> systems that don't have a special key for it map it to the "#" key. On
> older systems, quite often the drivers replace the "#" character with the
> pound symbol, but some replace the "$".


ISO Latin on a classic computer? Pull the other one!

ISTR that the IBM PC had it at decimal 156. I have seen it replace $, #, \
(Commodore VIC) and ` (IIRC FTS Series 88, which loaded the character set
from disk at boot). Diablo 96-spoke daisywheels used either ESC-Y or ESC-Z
(Not in a position to look it up and I can't remember what the 96th spoke
was for, either)

Philip.
Received on Wed Feb 03 1999 - 05:43:44 GMT