-=> Quoting John Dailey to Scott Adams <=-

 JD> {at}MSGID: 3:633/690 009d841c
 JD> * In a message originally to John Dailey, Scott Adams said:
 
 SA> I have no experience with Mac coding other than maybe an hours work
 SA> on some old ancient mac compiler back in college.  But I do recall
 SA> there was a character set conversion or something.
 SA> Is it a different set or do they just not allow high ascii?

 JD> I didn't either, until I reccently tried out REALbasic.  I'm in love
 JD> :) 
 JD> The ASCII is all about encoding, and it's a real bitch to get it to
 JD> work right, so what I've done instead of trying to deal with that is
 JD> just working with the absolute byte values.

 JD> With that decided, it's a simple matter of using a bitmapped VGA font
 JD> to display the range of old PC ASCII characters.

 JD> Of course, not the most elegant solution, but it's the only one
 JD> guaranteed to show exactly what I want to see.

        Yeah if it works though :).  Instead of byte values just
        do a unit to replace Red for the byte value.  :)

        Something like that. Or is it like HTML color values where
        you have to tweak them to work?


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