Hi,

Does Lazarus have a unicode conversion table for this ASCII character set? See url.

http://www.web-wise-wizard.com/programming/ascii-ibm-extended-character-set.html

As you can see from the url, the characters below Char(32) is very different to standard ASCII table or the ASCII table with CodePage 437.

I'm reading old binary data files that used the IBM Extended ASCII characters in text content. At the moment I simply do a the following to replace certain characters. For example, what we know as the standard ascii (bell character), was the a bullet character.

  s := StringReplace(s, Char(7),'?', [rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);

Times have changed! I remember those smiley face characters in a old pac-man game I used to play. :-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:48:47 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote about [Lazarus] ASCII - IBM's (old) extended character set:

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As you can see from the url, the characters below Char(32) is very different to standard ASCII table or the ASCII table with CodePage 437.

In the days before wide National Language Support, IBM and M$ shipped PC-DOS and MS-DOS, respectively, with two code pages: 437 and 850. These pre-dated the ISO standard for these character sets. However, iconv (and many other conversion utilities) still supports them as code pages IBM437 and IBM850, as distinct from CP437 and CP850.

Does Lazarus have a unicode conversion table for this ASCII character set? See url. http://www.web-wise-wizard.com/programming/ascii-ibm-extended-character-set.html

AFAIK that's the IBM OEM charset. Dunno an Ansi/ISO name for it.

DoDi

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