International Characters; Some Special Characters - Epson FX Series User Manual

line feed, which means that the subsequent movement of the print
head will be from the left margin to
delete line and change line 40 to read:
10
40
FOR X=1 TO 10: LPRINT CHR$(27)"<"CHR$(124):
NEXT X
When you RUN it, you can watch the print head move to its leftmost
position after it prints each line.
Unidirectional print motion straightens out the slight misalignment
of characters that results from printing bidirectionally in
Compressed Mode. The difference is subtle, but often it's such subtle-
ties that make a topnotch graphics display possible.

International Characters

Remember the tilde that you used at the beginning of this chapter to
create the approximately equal sign? Well, that tilde is only one of the
many uncommon characters that are stored in the FX as components
of the nine international character sets.
We mentioned the international character sets in Chapter 1, when
we explained that the factory-set defaults for
the selection of the USA character set. Besides the pound sign (#),
dollar sign ($), and at sign (@), the USA set includes the nine other
symbols shown in Table
on your computer's keyboard.
91
92
93
94
t
95
96
123
124
125
126
But that's not all. Your FX has the makings of a world correspon-
dent. Packed
in the ROM are nine sets of letters and special characters
one or more of these nine may not appear
6-1;
Table

Some special characters

6-7.
right. To see this in action,
the
DIP switches include
the
Left bracket
Back slash
Right bracket
Caret
Underline
Accent grave
Left brace
Flat colon
Right brace
Tilde
Elite or
the
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