Thread: Extended ASCII Characters in an RTF Control

Sorry, the missing key was a poor attempt at humor. Actually, the ASCII character set was extended, according to (www.asciitable.com):
"As people gradually required computers to understand additional characters and non-printing characters the ASCII set became restrictive. As with most technology, it took a while to get a single standard for these extra characters and hence there are few varying 'extended' sets."

That, however is a debate I do not wish to engage in. I am just trying to learn and understand how to pass these characters so that I can create a nice looking report.

Code:

char topLeftCorner = "┌";
char topRightCorner = "┐";

char bottomLeftCorner = "└";

char bottomRightCorner = "┘";

char topT = "┬";

char bottomT = "┴";

char leftT = "├";
char rightT = "┤";
char crossCorner = "┼";

char horizontalLine = "─";

char verticalLine = "│";


strcpy(line,topLeftCorner);

Originally Posted by brewbuck

The debate is unavoidable. The identity of a code point is determined by a code page. The question of what the magic number is is not even the right question.

And if IBM PC-8 is "extended ASCII" then I'm going to call Unicode "extended ASCII" as well. As soon as there was more than one extension to ASCII the term became meaningless.

Any debate is avoidable. Watch . . . .