... used to delete the previous character, as the print head couldn't...The ASCII standard document and the Fortran standard document both call it ...>>>Besides, shouldn't ISO standard Fortran be based on ISO standard ... ASCII is the first 128 character codes of ISO 10646. So yes, the Fortran character set is identical to the ... different ideas. Still, why should Fortran be based on the US ...

...carat and underscore were added? No characters were added in 1977. Two allowed... used to delete the previous character, as the print head couldn't...>>Besides, shouldn't ISO standard Fortran be based on ISO standard ... ASCII is the first 128 character codes of ISO 10646. So yes, the Fortran character set is identical to the ... different ideas. Still, why should Fortran be based on the US ...

... and underscore were added? No characters were added in 1977. Two ... Besides, shouldn't ISO standard Fortran be based on ISO standard ... ASCII is the first 128 character codes of ISO 10646. So yes, the Fortran character set is identical to the ... part of several standard ISO character sets. That seems pretty firmly based upon ISO standard character sets. -- J. Giles "I conclude that ...

... U.S. keyboards: http://allchars.zwolnet.com/ I use the COMPOSE character on my keyboard. It gets me all the characters in the DEC multinational character set. And, getting back to Fortran, if I forget them, I produce the table by typing $ HELP FORTRAN CHAR DEC which, along with some explanatory text, produces: ...

...Surely the US pound sign but not the British one does exist in ASCII: in Fortran it is ACHAR(35). There seem to be two separate sources of confusion, not just one, and this thread is still mixing them up: (1) the name ASCII being applied to different character sets, (2) the different meanings of "pound sign" in different English- speaking countries (pounds avoirdupois in USA, pounds ...

...S/360 and S/370 years.) There is at least one with the 48 character Fortran set, one with the 60 character PL/I set (with the NOT character), and one with a 120 character set including lower case alphabet, line drawing, superscripts, and other useful characters. There are more copies of each character with smaller character sets, such that the printer runs faster. -- glen

...half table ascii" which isn't REALLY ascii, but IS convenient for at least the Multi-Lingual character set and for the more usual one wth greek mathematical characters and boxing glyphs of two mixed types. But, the EXTERNAL use ...umlout ans so on, all within the ASCIi table as a code set with different external glyphs. And, of course, it made sense to ...

...(I wrote) Besides, shouldn't ISO standard Fortran be based on ISO standard character sets? ASCII is an ISO International Standard. Specifically...IEC 646:1991, Information Technology - 7-bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange Previously in the discussion ...ISO 646. In any case, even if the characters are all the same, one should reference the ...

... for the non-printable ASCII characters - none of which are relevant what's at issue here. The printable characters of ASCII are now part of the Fortran standard character set. Characters outside that set may... Besides, shouldn't ISO standard Fortran be based on ISO standard ...1991, Information Technology - 7-bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange ISO/IEC ...

...glyphs for the non-printable ASCII characters - none of which are relevant what's at issue here. The printable characters of ASCII are now part of the Fortran standard character set. Characters outside that set may... worry about. ASCII has one set of characters, and since 1977 there have ... countries. Besides, shouldn't ISO standard Fortran be based on ISO standard character ...