Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!hp-sde!hpfcdc!rjn From: rjn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Niland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: GNUemacs and HP2392 Message-ID: <5570036@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 6 May 88 17:46:54 GMT References: <4698@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 18 re: "it is my understanding that the extend char key does not just set the top bit of the key that you hit, it accesses an alternate character set. some keys, like "z" dont seem to have an extended char." True. The [Extend char] key allows 17 of the local language HP keyboards to access all of the ROMAN8 characters, particularly those which do not appear on the keycaps. All of the keys now have at least unshifted [Extend char] definitions. The 'z' key, for example, is the paragraph symbol ("" if you are in 8-bit mode, and your display has this in its font. In the window font I am presently using, it is "F4".) The 2392A is missing 16 of the current ROMAN8 characters. I suspect that "" is one of them. I know of no way to simply turn on the 8th bit of ASCII characters on our keyboards. In any case, this scheme would not work for our European customers, because their "normal keys" include several, if not many, characters that have the 8th bit on already. Bob Niland ARPA:rjn%hpfcrjn@hplabs.HP.COM UUCP:[ihnp4|hplabs]!hpfcla!rjn