Re: ASCII codes differ, how to change?

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 04/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:19:00 -0800

Alright then why do two computers with the same OS (win XP)
return different characters for the same ASCII value, and
can i change it so they're both the same?

>-----Original Message-----
>"Sam" <gole@porchlight.ca> wrote in message
>news:1788a01c41886$948699f0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> when alt<189> is pressed, the cent sign appears, i
>> expected a corner of a box drawing, i have two computers
>> side by side running same OS, one reutrns box drawing
and
>> the other a cent sign, this goes for several ASCII
codes,
>> i cant figure out how to solve this problem,
>
>Strictly speaking, the ASCII character set only includes
values up to 127
>decimal (7F hex). However, when the IBM PC was developed,
the video card
>contained one byte for each character in the 80x25
character display.
>Gee...what to do with that extra bit per character? Why
not invent 128 new
>characters, for line-drawing and special symbols? The
result, of course, was
>the extended ASCII character set for the IBM PC. The
chart below shows (most
>of) the characters that can be generated by the display
in the original IBM
>PC.
>
>Microsoft Windows ® has a different notion about what the
high-order (upper
>128) characters are.
>
>
>.
>

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