1. French language characters
Last year, I wrote a program to act as a data entry screen for entering
people's address information in an
electronic form that looks like the paper original.
I used David Cuny's DOS Text based GUI as the basis for it, but I now need
to update the input routines to
allow the user to enter French characters for names and addresses in
addition to English names.
I have been fairly unsuccessful in searching old archives to find how this
can be accomplished.
Ideally, I'd like the user to type ALT+133 to get é, etc.
Are there pre-built routines I can add in, or will I have to redesign the
entire program?
I'm open to any suggestions.
David Owens
david.owens at gnb.ca
2. Re: French language characters
David Owens wrote:
> Ideally, I'd like the user to type ALT+133 to get é, etc.
The TextGUI currently supports extended characters, as long as you type them
on the numeric keypad.
I have a vague recollection of writing a program in QBasic that allowed the
user to access the extended characters. It worked by looking for certain
character combinations. For example,
A+` --> À
A+' --> Á
A+^ --> Â
A+" --> Ã
A+: --> Ä
A+o --> Å
This seems a more sensible sort of scheme than expecting people to remember
keycodes. I would think it wouldn't be too hard to hack the SLE to
automagically convert those characters.
-- David Cuny
