Hi Paul, "Paul A Bristow" wrote
| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Andy Little | Sent: 08 June 2006 11:39 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] [review] pqs
| In the output area one think lacking is going beyond ASCII. | It would be nice to output Ohms as O rather than R for example. | Any help with that would be appreciated too.
It all goes back to 8 hole paper tape - where one hole was misguidedly reserved for parity.
One of the Great Computing Disasters :-((
(Thankfully, magnetic 1/2 inch tape was made 9 track, or we would have 7 bits per byte).
We havent moved on much! Your post is particularly amusing because the sentence including the text " Ohms as O" in your reply has been magically transformed in the round trip. What has been returned to me as a Capital O was sent as the electronic symbol for ohms at considerable trouble. I went in to MS Word, selected the ohms symbol and pasted it in, with some sort of vague hope that it might survive the trip. regards Andy Little