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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
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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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