ASCII £ Oshonsoft

[camerart]

Hi,
I use Ascii characters in my PIC programs, usually a $.
As a difference I decided to use a £ instead, but it shows as a backwards capital L. Does anyone know why?
Cheers, Camerart

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Displayed on what?, a PIC is a microcontroller and doesn't have any display.

 

[For The Popcorn]

ASCII is a 7 bit protocol that doesn't support £ or €. You may be able to specify different encoding in Oshonsoft and whatever display device you're using.

Good ASCII & Encoding reference

 

[Ian Rogers]

where are you using it? if its in the program "ALT 156" will get you there ( Hold ALT when entering the code) If you are sending it via serial, use any other. I use Tilde ~ as its very obscure and its one of the 128 characters. 126 in fact..

 

[camerart]

Displayed on what?, a PIC is a microcontroller and doesn't have any display.

Hi N,
The PIC outputs serial sentence via radio to the computer with a terminal output on screen
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[camerart]

ASCII is a 7 bit protocol that doesn't support £ or €. You may be able to specify different encoding in Oshonsoft and whatever display device you're using.

Good ASCII & Encoding reference

Hi F,
I see! The £ isn't really important, I just wondered, I now use % instead.
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[camerart]

where are you using it? if its in the program "ALT 156" will get you there ( Hold ALT when entering the code) If you are sending it via serial, use any other. I use Tilde ~ as its very obscure and its one of the 128 characters. 126 in fact..

Hi I,
I've used 'ALT 176' for DEG, in the past, quite useful. I'm not sure if I can use this method with Oshonsoft, but I'll try as an experiment.
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[rjenkinsgb]

If you are seeing it at the PC, I'd guess the "non unicode" programs language is not set to UK?

On the PC, go to settings, search for Language, go to "Language settings" then down to "Administrative language settings".

The "Language for non-Unicode programs" is probably used as the default for a simple terminal program?

Changing that would change the system display character set for every program.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Hi N,
The PIC outputs serial sentence via radio to the computer with a terminal output on screen
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You have two 'issues' then, what your terminal is doing (how it's set 7 bit, 8 bit, font used etc.), and what the program you're using to write the PIC code is doing. With the terminal program set correctly, and the PIC side written correctly, there's no issue displaying £ symbols.

I wouldn't consider using anything other than 8N1 for the serial link, which is fairly universal, and the default for most things.

 

[camerart]

Hi J and N,
I looked at the terminal only and here is one drop down, showing the '£':

As I'm using an alternative, I won't fix it, but I now know why it isn't showing £.
Thanks.
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[Ian Rogers]

The ANSII set was created in A.N.OTHER country. if you view the whole 256 characters (just google them ) you can see what's available. But! to keep everything "working" just stick to the original 127 characters.
That way you will not need any extra encoding.

 

[camerart]

The ANSII set was created in A.N.OTHER country. if you view the whole 256 characters (just google them ) you can see what's available. But! to keep everything "working" just stick to the original 127 characters.
That way you will not need any extra encoding.

Hi I,
I have the list os Acii chars, and I refer to it all of the time.
127 is enough, thanks.
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[Ian Rogers]

Do you have a decent list of "ALT" codes? I say decent because "some" lists are just out and out wrong.

 

[camerart]

Do you have a decent list of "ALT" codes? I say decent because "some" lists are just out and out wrong.

Hi I,
No, I have a list of ASCII, DEC, BIN SYMB and description. With ALT, I only use 0176.

 

[Ian Rogers]

I have a good one at work... I need most of the Greek symbols α ß φ Ω µ π and these ± ¼ ½

 

[camerart]

I have a good one at work... I need most of the Greek symbols α ß φ Ω µ π and these ± ¼ ½

Hi I,
I found what looks like a good one, and had a play, interesting.
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