Hello everybody, hope you can help me in this one, I am working on a project with old IDE TurboC but I need to input special ascii characters like ALT+219 to get a █ for example.
I have not found yet a way to input this characters, it just don’t work.
(To programmers, putchar(ascii value) is not an option)
Thanks in advance.
Environment:
Kubuntu 9.10
Laptop with English keyboard and layout.
alt-219 should work in dosbox. be sure to use the numeric keyboard when inputting the numbers
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Hi, thanks for reply, but… there’s only one way to input number in most laptops, mine is the case, since it does not have a separated numeric pad.
The laptops, I used did have a Fn key combination to use some of the right keys as numpad. Might not work on linux AND is probably annoying to work with 🙁
You could also access the characters using
chr(index); Returns a char/string(1)
eg,
printf( chr(219)+chr(219)+" Hello "+chr(219)+chr(219));
etc
\xXX
where XX is the heximal presentation should work as well.
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Thanks everyone for the help, now I am able to continue the project without a VirtualMachine.