Operation Manual

Character Sets
In the IBM-Modes your MI CROLINE 3410 lets you choose between
two IBM character sets
and numerous international character sets.
IBM CHARACTER SETS
IBM Character Set 1 repeats many of the non-printable commands
(such as ESC and NUL) at the higher end of the ASCII scale, at
decimallocations 128through 155. TheESCcommand,forexample,
can be given
as either decimal value CHR$(27) or CHR$(155). In
IBM Character Set 2, the high ASCII values are reserved for
characters used in foreign languages. Both these character sets
havelinegraphicscharactersandmathematicalsymbolsatdecimal
locations
160 through 255 on the ASCII chart. IBM Character Set 2
also includes special characters in decimal locations 3
through 6:
a heart, diamond, club and spade. The section on non-ASCII characters
explains how to print these special characters.
Appendix B
shows you the two IBM character sets
Character Sets Decimal
Hex.
ASCII Comp .
Select character set 1 27 55
IB 37
ESC7
p
Select character set 2 27 5-! lB 36 ESC6
p
Code Page: This allows the user to select a Code Page which is then
available as
IBM Character Sets 1, 2 and the All Character Set (in IBM
emulation). The characters are accessed in the same way, using the
commands
ESC 7 to select Character set 1, ESC 6 to select Character
Set 2 and
ESC " or ESC \ n 1 n2 to select the All Character Set.
The Code
Pages can be found in Appendix B.
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