Re: ACII stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI...
"Getting the Danish (and Norwegian) character "ø" was a pain for a long time, printers in the early 90es often gave you a "¢"."
Oh, we Brits doing computer stuff in the eighties will be able to tell you plenty of stories about the trouble of getting a printer to give a '£' instead of a '#'. Sort of important to us, it being the British currency and all, but your bog standard fx80 clone would demand a blood sacrifice. Get that wrong, or try to reason with it, it'll print pages of # symbols.
Of course, it sometimes blew up in return. Who remembers having to mentally fix software listings in magazines where you'd see stuff like "PRINT£X" instead of "PRINT#X"?
"I wonder how you do Japanese or Chinese?"
Dunno about Chinese. For Japanese, there are two ways, basically similar. One is you type the sounds in using the Latin alphabet, and it will change in the fly. For instance one would type "ko" and you'd see "こ". Do it again to see "ここ". Then add a "ro" to arrive at "こころ" which would magically change to "心". It's actually insanely more complicated than that, but that's the gist of it. The second method is to write in kana directly, essentially like こ こ ろ without the Latin part...
(it means ❤, by the way)
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