@ascii[] btwn v8 and v14

[Charles G]

I have some files I am trying to process under both v8 and 14. Under 8 i works fine but doesn't uinder 14. I made a list of the filenames then removed the obvious chars of a-z and 0-9 and then removed the duplicate chars. I then did

for %data in (@newerror.txt) echo [EMAIL]%@ascii[%data][/EMAIL]

under v8 and v14. Under 8 I got:

7
38
39
40
41
44
46
91
93
95
8364
8218
8222
8224
8225
710
352
338
141
8216
160
161
162
164
165
173
225

but under 14 I got

7
38
39
40
41
44
46
91
93
95
199
233
228
229
231
234
232
238
236
230
225
237
243
241
209
161
223

Why would I get two different values for the 2 different versions?

 

[Steve Fabian]

Since ASCII is a 7-bit code, its values are in the 0...127 range. All codes larger than 127 come from non-ASCII characters; the same glyph may have a different code in a different code page. Do you use the same font and the same code page for V8 and V14? Any difference may account for your observation. However, I the values exceeding 255 seem really strange - as if you file were unicode, not ASCII...

 

[Charles G]

I use the same codepage and font. would using unicode[] be the best idea now? I just don't understnad why two versions of the same program woulkd have entirely different results.

I have also just attached the file I am talking about....

 

[Steve Fabian]

OK, I looked at the file, it is not unicode (utf-16). I know nothing about UTF-8, but it does not appear to be that, either. It's mostly ASCII, with a few bell (BEL, ^G, 0x07) characters, a lot of punctuation characters, letters, numerals, and a smattering of non-ASCII characters displayed here as European accented characters.

 

[Steve Fabian]

I used my editor to strip letters and numbers, and created my own file of one character lines for each different character code. I used the command below to list it in 4nt8, a similar one for TCC14. The log files were identical!

( for %l in (@move.chr) ( iff "%l" NE "" then ^ echo %@ascii[%l] %l ^ else ^ echo. ^ endiff ) ) > v08.log

My environment: WinXP Home SP3, raster fonts for both 4nt and TCC; code page 437 for both.

 

[Charles G]

Would you send me move.cv08.log and I assume v14.log please? CSGalloway at nc dot rr dot com .

How can I tell what font (and if it's raster) I use in tcmd/tcc and what code page in Windows I use?

TVMIA

 

[Charles G]

( for %l in (@move.chr) ( iff "%l" NE "" then ^ echo %@ascii[%l] %l ^ else ^ echo. ^ endiff ) ) > v08.log

In the above command - why is the [ iff "%l" NE "" then] test necessary? I stil don't understand why I am getitng different results from two different TCMD/TCC versions...