Re: xt5250, x5250, fonts

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Scott Klement wrote:

Having said that, however, the EBCDIC CCSID 37 (default in the USA) has
hex character x'4A' set to the cent sign.  And ISO 8859-1 (based on a web
search) has the cent sign as x'A2'.  Assuming that the font you use is
100% compliant with ISO 8859-1 (which might be a really big assumption!)
both x5250 and xt5250 should output the sign properly without changes.

To verify that it was functioning properly, I wrote the following trivial
RPG program:

    D char            s              1A   inz(x'4A')
    c                   dsply                   char
    c                   eval      *inlr = *on

When I run this program, it does show a cent sign on my display (FreeBSD
5.2.1 with XFree86 4.3.0, using the 'fixed' font)

I tested this with both x5250 and xt5250, and both display the cent sign
properly.

http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/x5250/tests/index.html

At home I'm running X.org rather than XFree86, so I'll check it there
later.

X.org here.

James Rich

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