Re: [LINUX5250] xt5250, x5250, fonts

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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