Character Sets - Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 Series Maintenance Manual

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Character Sets

A.1 Introduction
The TravelMate Computer character sets are identical to the IBM Code
Pages for . This appendix shows the character sets for Code Page 437
MS-DOS
(United States), 850 (Multilingual), 863 (Canadian-French), and 865
(Nordic), with the decimal and hexadecimal codes for each character.
The four-character sets contain differences in the international, symbol,
and graphics characters above decimal code 128 (extended characters).
ASCII
Note: The extended characters that are not on the keyboard (128 to
ASCII
255 decimal) can be displayed at the prompt and in many applica-
MS-DOS
tions. Press Alt, and type the decimal code for the character using the
ASCII
keys with numbers on their front face and also using Fn or
Num Lk on. Release the Alt key and the character is displayed on the
screen. Your printer may or may not print the extended characters. Refer to
the character code tables in your printer documentation.
Character Sets A-1