On Wed 5 Oct 2011, Thomas Young wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to read and write ascii characters using FPC. I had no problems > doing this years ago with Think Pascal & Code Warrior. > > For some reason I'm not able to read and write ascii characters above ascii > 127 with FPC. Can someone explain this to me? > > Thanks in advance!
The world has changed, and globalization has reached your computer. Your computer is almost definitely using a different character set today than it was back in those days long ago. read this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) ~D. > > Using this code: > for i:= 33 to 226 do > writeln('Character: ', chr(i), ' Ascii value: ', i:1); > > Character: ! Ascii value: 33 > Character: " Ascii value: 34 > Character: # Ascii value: 35 > Character: $ Ascii value: 36 > Character: % Ascii value: 37 > Character: & Ascii value: 38 > Character: ' Ascii value: 39 > Character: ( Ascii value: 40 > Character: ) Ascii value: 41 > Character: * Ascii value: 42 > Character: + Ascii value: 43 > Character: , Ascii value: 44 > Character: - Ascii value: 45 > Character: . Ascii value: 46 > Character: / Ascii value: 47 > Character: 0 Ascii value: 48 > Character: 1 Ascii value: 49 > Character: 2 Ascii value: 50 > Character: 3 Ascii value: 51 > Character: 4 Ascii value: 52 > Character: 5 Ascii value: 53 > Character: 6 Ascii value: 54 > Character: 7 Ascii value: 55 > Character: 8 Ascii value: 56 > Character: 9 Ascii value: 57 > Character: : Ascii value: 58 > Character: ; Ascii value: 59 > Character: < Ascii value: 60 > Character: = Ascii value: 61 > Character: > Ascii value: 62 > Character: ? Ascii value: 63 > Character: @ Ascii value: 64 > Character: A Ascii value: 65 > Character: B Ascii value: 66 > Character: C Ascii value: 67 > Character: D Ascii value: 68 > Character: E Ascii value: 69 > Character: F Ascii value: 70 > Character: G Ascii value: 71 > Character: H Ascii value: 72 > Character: I Ascii value: 73 > Character: J Ascii value: 74 > Character: K Ascii value: 75 > Character: L Ascii value: 76 > Character: M Ascii value: 77 > Character: N Ascii value: 78 > Character: O Ascii value: 79 > Character: P Ascii value: 80 > Character: Q Ascii value: 81 > Character: R Ascii value: 82 > Character: S Ascii value: 83 > Character: T Ascii value: 84 > Character: U Ascii value: 85 > Character: V Ascii value: 86 > Character: W Ascii value: 87 > Character: X Ascii value: 88 > Character: Y Ascii value: 89 > Character: Z Ascii value: 90 > Character: [ Ascii value: 91 > Character: \ Ascii value: 92 > Character: ] Ascii value: 93 > Character: ^ Ascii value: 94 > Character: _ Ascii value: 95 > Character: ` Ascii value: 96 > Character: a Ascii value: 97 > Character: b Ascii value: 98 > Character: c Ascii value: 99 > Character: d Ascii value: 100 > Character: e Ascii value: 101 > Character: f Ascii value: 102 > Character: g Ascii value: 103 > Character: h Ascii value: 104 > Character: i Ascii value: 105 > Character: j Ascii value: 106 > Character: k Ascii value: 107 > Character: l Ascii value: 108 > Character: m Ascii value: 109 > Character: n Ascii value: 110 > Character: o Ascii value: 111 > Character: p Ascii value: 112 > Character: q Ascii value: 113 > Character: r Ascii value: 114 > Character: s Ascii value: 115 > Character: t Ascii value: 116 > Character: u Ascii value: 117 > Character: v Ascii value: 118 > Character: w Ascii value: 119 > Character: x Ascii value: 120 > Character: y Ascii value: 121 > Character: z Ascii value: 122 > Character: { Ascii value: 123 > Character: | Ascii value: 124 > Character: } Ascii value: 125 > Character: ~ Ascii value: 126 > Character: Ascii value: 127 > Character: ? Ascii value: 128 > Character: ? Ascii value: 129 > Character: ? Ascii value: 130 > Character: ? Ascii value: 131 > Character: ? Ascii value: 132 > Character: ? Ascii value: 133 > Character: ? Ascii value: 134 > Character: ? Ascii value: 135 > Character: ? Ascii value: 136 > Character: ? Ascii value: 137 > > truncated for brevity. > > > Thomas Young > mobile email: tygraph...@me.com > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
