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Differences Between IBM And ASCII Characters |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: ASCII characters up to 127 become control characters when files containing them are saved as DOS text files. Solutions: This following actually happens with the characters from 1 to approximately 31 in the ASCII character set. When you press the Alt key and a number such as 27, you get the left arrow which is an IBM character. When WP saves the file as a DOS text file, the character changes to ^[, an ASCII character for that same value. The value of the character is the same; interpreting the character in the IBM and ASCII character sets produces different characters. If you were to save the file as a WP file and retrieve it again, you would see the character as an IBM character, just as when you saved the file. The document prefix keeps the character in the IBM character set. Saving the file as a DOS text file removes this prefix, and DOS interprets the character in the only character set it recognizes which is ASCII. |
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