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21/11/2022 14:29:36
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
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Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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21/11/2022 11:35:17
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Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
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>>That's the 7bit codepage, aka YuSCII... the circumflex would be displayed as Č (for Pančevo city). We abandoned it in 1994. in favor of 852 and then 1251, but I'm amazed at the number of places where this is still used, almost thirty years after the reasons for it were gone.
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>>And it was hardwired in either the character EPROM on then Hercules cards, or in the system fonts in use, so the usual prompt was C:Đ... because backslash was a Đ, like the @ was Ž, so in Fox you'd see Ž 2,3 get...
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>Reminds me of how the special Norwegian letters where treated. Lower case æ, ø and å used the same ascii values as [, \ and ], upper case Æ, Ø and Å were replaced by as {,| and }. Or it was the other way around. Anyway, it made life a misery for us programmers. :-)

Lucky you, had only three. We have five šđžčć. And poor Hungarians have á, é, í, ó, ú, ö, ő, ü and ű. Even with 852 and 1251, they had many computers where you couldn't type í nor Í, because the keyboards lacked the 102nd key.

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