Re: Special char in box?


20 Jul 1995 02:22:21 GMT

Andrew C. Plotkin (erkyrath+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
: mblaheta@flood.xnet.com (Michael Blaheta) writes:
: > On 19 Jul 1995 01:57:19 GMT, Jason Dyer (jdyer@indirect.com) said:
: > > I want to put an accented letter in an Inform box quote, except it
: > > keeps coughing up whenever I try. Can anyone help?
: > AFAIK you can't. Zcode does not use the ASCII standard to store text,
: > it uses a 5 bit character code (as I recall), and so it simply doesn't
: > have the elaborate characters available. Just letters, numbers, and
: > common (i.e. on the keyboard) symbols.

Oh, great. So to put this quote in there I'm going to have to mangle this
poor man's name? Graham, are you out there? How did you deal with this
in Curses if it ever came up?

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Jason Dyer - jdyer@indirect.com