Some Special Characters; Some Special Characters - Epson FX-80 User Manual

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1~
LPRINT CHR$(126);CHR$(8);
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(Approximately equal)
2~
LPRINT CHR$(27)IIJIICHR$(11);CHR$(126)
3~ LPRINT CHR$(27)1I@1I
This program prints CHR$(126) (in English this is a little-used charac-
ter: it's a Spanish accent mark which is called a tilde). The print head is
backspaced by CHR$(8), then a partial line feed is forced by (ESC)
"J"CHR$(ll) (line feeds are covered in Chapter 7). The second tilde is
printed below the first one to form the desired figure.
Some special characters
The tilde character raises an interesting point. There are several
characters stored in the FX-80 that can't be generated from many com-
puter keyboards (see Appendix A). In particular, the characters stored
for the ASCII codes between 91 and 96, and between 123 and 126, and
for their italic counterparts are uncommon. Table 6-1 lists these char-
acters:
Table 6·1. Some Special Characters.
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[ Left bracket
92
\ Back slash
'.
93
J
Right bracket
94
.....
Caret
95
_.Om
Underline
96
Accent grave
123
.r
Left brace
'.
124
I
Flat colon
I
125
'
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Right brace
126
"-. Tilde
But that's not all. The FX-80 has more special characters hidden in
its inner recesses. In fact, it can print characters from countries all over
the world.
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