[fpc-devel]Re: GRAPH Unit for linux - Problems

Sebastian Günther sguenther at gmx.de
Tue Nov 20 00:26:22 CET 2001


"Andreas K. Foerster" wrote:
> 
> GraphStringTransTable := @AnsiToASCIITransTable;
> 
> You really should put that into the manual!
> 
> BTW. the naming is not correct, because /both/ charsets are based on
> ASCII and it's not translated to /pure/ ASCII.

I know, but in the usual speech Ansi is the Windows/Linux charset
(ISO8859-1, more or less), and ASCII the old DOS charset.
Microsoft would name this "AnsiToOEMTransTable". Correct would be
"ISO8859_1ToCP437TransTable". Not very nice names either.


- Sebastian




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