From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IBM extended character set Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:22:17 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291857515 2367 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 01:18:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:18:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 02:18:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQV9R-0000Ss-3m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQV9Q-0005gG-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:18:28 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h40g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.180.85.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1280866938 20071 127.0.0.1 (3 Aug 2010 20:22:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h40g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.180.85.8; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.125 Safari/533.4, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180322 comp.emacs:100287 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76369 Archived-At: On Aug 3, 3:11=C2=A0am, harry weston wrote: > Hello > > I have searched the 'net, but cannot find out how to incorporate into ema= cs the symbols from the IBM extended character set that draw boxes of singl= e or double lines. It used to be easy on my old Epson dot-matrix printer. M= y failure to locate it is most likely because I don't know exactly what to = look for among the ISOs and all that. I'll be very grateful for any help yo= ur can give, > > Very best wishes, and thanks for offering this service, Harry Weston you'll need to give us some details. e.g. do you have a image (screenshot) of the character? Most people today isn't familiar with ibm charsets. also, am certain that all ibm charsets in any version should be in unicode. So, your problem is simply finding the right unicode, if i understand it correctly. Not sure what you mean by =E2=80=9Cincorporate=E2= =80=9D. you might find your char in the =E2=80=9Cshapes=E2=80=9D file in the follow= ing: =E2=80=A2 xub Unicode Browser mode for Emacs http://xahlee.org/emacs/unicode-browser.html the following might help on some issues of input, code point, etc. =E2=80=A2 Emacs and Unicode Tips http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_n_unicode.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84