Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

[Jyoshua]

Real basic question...

I am currently working on MUD like game
for my Computer Science class... Also I
love RPGs so I actually care enough to go
all out...

I think I was told how to but I forget and I
don't want to waste my 3-day weekend so
how is it you can use special characters or
ALT-Commands in a put statement?

i.e.
I want to do:

put "█"

but if I try to do the ALT-Command or even
copy and paste it comes out like this... ??

put "?"

[Euphoracle]

I don't believe Turing supports extended ascii. I think you might have to do it using the Draw. procedures, unless someone else knows a way to get it to work.

[Jyoshua]

Perhaps I could substitute
the current font with a
manually made one...
Still anything else easier
would be appreciated ...

Please help lmao

[Dan]

1st of all why are you trying to output an "ALT-Command"?

If it is that you want some charcater that is not on the keyboard like ?, ? or ? (or any other extended ASCII char) you should be using the chr command with the ascii code.

For example if you want ? you would do:

put chr(135)

For a list of ascii codes see http://www.ascii-code.com/


Unfrontly tho, thess chars are not the same as you will get with the ALT-some numbers in windows like ╝ or ╗ and as far as i know turing does not support thoes so you will either get an error or a ? if you try to put them in ""s


Edit: It seems compsci.ca does not support the extended ASCII chars i was using in the example, however turing does support them and you should be able to use any of the chars on the ascii-code.com site in turing.

[[Gandalf]]

Characters are a tricky thing, so I'm not sure what exactly you mean to display. However, from what I can tell, you're trying to accomplish such:

Turing:

setscreen("msdos") put chr(219)

[Jyoshua]

Dude that's what I was trying to remember
Thank you so much!!

[[Gandalf]]

No problem! Welcome to CompSci.ca.