Article # 510, added by Geoworks, historical record
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How are GEOS and DOS character sets different?



Q. What are the similarities and differences between GEOS and DOS
   character sets?

A. GEOS supports almost all roman-based languages.

   Geos uses mostly ASCII, which defines chars 0 to 127. Some of the
   control chars have different meanings. Above 127 are from Geos
   unique chars, that foreign languages (European), typographicals
   (like dagger and trademark), currency (yen), and math symbols
   (like infinity). You can find out the specific char codes from
   Include/char.def file.

   Geos does not have the IBM PC graphics chars (i.e., lower left corner
   piece with two lines).

   And then there is DBCS, in which is piled every character in existence,
   PLUS the kitchen sink.