Foreign Alphabets, OPTION Key, Extended ASCII on Macintosh (47986)

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1. Below are four special symbols assigned to ASCII values 17 through 20, available in TEXTFONT 0. These are detailed on Page I-220 of "Inside Macintosh" Volume I (by Apple Computer, published by Addison-Wesley, 1985):

         Symbol           Character Code
         ------           --------------
   
         commandMark      17  (COMMAND key symbol)
         checkMark        18  (Check mark)
         diamondMark      19  (Filled-diamond symbol)
         appleMark        20  (Apple symbol)
   						

   The following program displays these symbols:

      TEXTFONT 0
      FOR x = 17 TO 20
         PRINT CHR$(x)
      NEXT
   						

2. The following program uses the CHR$ function to display the special Macintosh characters assigned to extended ASCII values 128 through 216, which include miscellaneous symbols and Greek and foreign-language characters:

      WIDTH 40   ' Changes screen width to wrap at 40 characters.
      FOR x = 128 to 216
         PRINT CHR$(x);
      NEXT
      WIDTH 255  ' Changes screen back to no automatic wrapping.
   						

   Note that standard ASCII characters are values 32 through 126.
3. You can also hold down OPTION or SHIFT+OPTION and type special symbols into quoted strings or REMarks. (For a map of these characters, select Key Caps from the Apple menu, and press the OPTION key alone, or the SHIFT and OPTION keys together.) Example:

      A$ = "Hold down OPTION or SHIFT+OPTION and type: <option-chars>"
      PRINT A$    ' PRINT the characters to the output window.
   						

4. The OPTION key can also be used in a two-character sequence to enter the accents or diacritical marks for international language characters. You may type these characters into quoted strings or REMarks. [If a character cannot be accented by the mark you've chosen, you get the mark, followed by the character. Typing the OPTION+key combination followed by a space gives you the diacritical mark alone. Many capital letters don't support accents or diacritical marks on the Macintosh.]:

   For a grave accent (`), type OPTION+` then type the vowel you want to accent (a, e, i, o, u).
   
   For an acute accent (which slants the opposite of a grave accent), type OPTION+e then type the vowel you want to accent (a, e, i, o, u).
   
   For a circumflex (^), type OPTION+i then type the vowel you want to accent (a, e, i, o, u).
   
   For the diacritical mark for an umlaut vowel, type OPTION+u then type the character you want to accent (a, e, i, o, u).
   
   For a tilde (~) over an n, type OPTION+n then type the character n.
   
   For a c with a cedilla, type OPTION+c.

   (This information is taken from the "Macintosh System Software Version 6.0: User's Guide", from Apple Computer, Inc.)