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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.

Is there a way we can test to find out if a given character exists in a given font? Can we test to see if all printable EBCDIC characters may be printed using the currently selected font?


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.

There is also a test program written by someone on this list (I forgot who) that I've posted on the x5250 website called TESTSCRIR with an accompanying display file called TESTSCRDF. This program prints out many characters which aren't on my keyboard. The cent character is among them. xt5250 displays it correctly as well.


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

It's not the software that's free; it's you.
        - billyskank on Groklaw

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