RE: ZX80 (was: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels))

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 09:29:58 EST

  • Next message: Jon Hanna: "Re: ZX80 (was: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels))"

    > Gosh, that brings me back. All those characters that were BASIC keywords
    > compressed into one octet. How could we have neglected to encode such important
    > legacy characters, this unnecessarily complicates round-trip conversion between
    > ZX80s and Unicode.

    Indeed. http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/ZX81/ZX81_BASIC/ZXBASIC_A.htm

    And someone already has PETSCII (Commodore 64) to Unicode mapping:
    http://www.df.lth.se/~triad/krad/recode/petlc/
    (warning: several images cross-linked to charts.unicode.org)

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