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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: How to visualize control chars? (Was: Re: Fast Text output...)
- References: <BxLpvE.M9F@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1992Nov17.205949.27174@sth.frontec.se>
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0ipb@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:33:32 PST
- Organization: TAP
- Lines: 22
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- Quoted from <1992Nov17.205949.27174@sth.frontec.se> by bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg):
-
- > I'm into an 'Emacs' way of displaying it, using '^' as prefix for control
- > chars and displaying chars not in fonts as '\hh' where hh is the hexadecimal
-
- > Opinions, anyone?
-
- One of the problems is that it interferes with the way the Amiga
- can be made to do things. For example, IF MicroEMACS just
- displayed oddball characters as themselves instead of translating,
- I could load up a font modified to show EBCDIC data, and then read
- the data without any other translation! Editing is a different
- story (keymaps, etc, which MicroEMACS ignores anyway :), of
- course.
-
- Also, is anyone writing programs to display Unicode text, or
- similar? How should that be accomplished?
-
- > -- Bjorn
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