[impression-x] Re: peculiar Space behaviour

  • From: Jim Nagel <jim-imp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: impression-x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:11:59 +0100

Jim Nagel wrote:
>> Even more bizarre, Alt-032, which should produce a space (since 032 is
>> the Ascii code for space), instead produces the figure "2".

Chris Hall  wrote on 30 Apr:
> I find that ALT-032 produces a '2' but this is with OS 5.16 and !Edit
> on my Iyonix, so this particular fault is nothing to do with
> Impression. However ALT-020 produces a space, ALT-022 produces a
> double quote and ALT-030 a zero.

The exercise did lead to an obscure fact I never knew before:  that 
recent versions of Ro take it as hex when an Alt-code is prefixed with 
a zero.

-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk

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