Re: How to represent the letter phi

On 2008-05-07, Winbug <Roger.Valand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am going to send the letter phi over a rs232 connection. The
problem I have is finding the letter in the ascii system. According
to articles on the web, I can get the letter phi by using either
chr(1000) or chr(618). On my computer I get entirely different
letters.

Since ascii is limited to letters 0..127, and phi is not in them, you will
have to first find out what more than ascii the rs232 connection accepts.

Probably you see chr(1000 mod 256) and chr(618 mod 256) for that reason.

The characters 128..255 depend on locale and are not constant.
.

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