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from: Rinat Sadretdinow
date: 1995-02-09 01:14:14
subject: Problem with ascii character E0

Hello All!

Tuesday January 31 1995, Dimitris Kotsonis writes to All:

 DK>   I have noticed that most applications that use KbdCharIn to obtain
 DK> keyboard input do not rely on the value of the status field to find out
 DK> whether the character is an extended one or not. Instead they assume all
 DK> keystorkes with an ascii value of 00h or E0h are extended. Since E0h is
 DK> used to denote the letter omega here in Greece, it turns out that most of
 DK> the programms will not accept the input of this character. I just hope
 DK> some of you [developers] pay attention to my little complaint and
 DK> make greek-portable programs in the future.

The same for russian letter represents 'r'. It have the same ASCII code so
cannot be captured by some programs :-(

Bye!

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