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What is "ASCII" text? What text can I use?

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ASCII refers to the standard 128 characters (including "control" characters) that can be entered on a standard keyboard. Bascially, all your alphanumeric characters and standard symbols such as colon, semi-colon, asterisk, hash mark, etc.
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How do I use non-ASCII text in the scripter?

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First, make sure to ensure that your script has a correct coding line. Your script should start with something like: #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: latin-1 -*- or #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- or #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: ascii -*- Those lines must be the first two lines of your script. The coding must match the actual encoding of the file.
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How can I export my PageMaker file to straight ASCII text?

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If you want to join together several unconnected stories together into one main story, first open up a new PageMaker file and issue the place command. Specify as a file your previous PageMaker file (make sure your PageMaker import filter is installed). A list of the stories will appear. Select the ones you want to join together. From there, you can export the combined story to an ASCII file -- there is an ASCII export filter, just be sure that it has been installed.
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How do I save a BASIC program in ASCII text form?

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The following line added to the front of your Applesoft BASIC program will save it in a Text file named "LISTFILE". It works in DOS 3.3 or ProDOS. HOME:PRINT CHR$(4)"OPEN LISTFILE": PRINT CHR$(4)"WRITE LISTFILE": POKE 33,33: LIST 2,: PRINT CHR$(4)"CLOSE": END If you have a line 1 which you'd like to leave alone, you can enter the above at Line 0 and change LIST 2, to LIST 1,.
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What is "ASCII art?" How can I make it? How much should I use?

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ASCII art consists of an image created solely with the 128 available ASCII characters. Most ASCII artists use trial and error to create their masterpieces, but there are some online ASCII art generators that can be used.
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Can I send and receive non-ASCII text?

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Anyway, to get gsend and gsub to properly interpret non-ASCII text, you'll need to tell them what encoding to use for reading in and sending out. You can do this by setting the gale variable GALE_CHARSET (either in the environment, or one of the conf files) to an appropriate. You'll probably want either "LATIN1" or "UTF-8", but other encodings may be possible. Check the documentation for iconv on your system. (iconv -l lists available character sets.
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How can I save an image as ASCII text?

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Download the SaveAsText.v sample module which creates a new toolbar button that copies an image to the clipboard as text. From there you can paste it and save it however you wish.
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How can I convert EBCDIC text to ASCII?

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There are several ways to do this depending on your exact requirements. To convert a block of bytes in a file without changing the length of the file use the Convert EBCDIC -> ASCII menu item on the Operations menu. Any invalid characters are converted to a zero byte. To convert a block of text ensuring that all converted bytes are valid ASCII you can use the clipboard commands.
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What font do you use for ASCII art?

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ASCII art is created using a fixed-width font (like on a traditional typewriter), because this is the only way to make it portable. However, several Usenet readers now display messages in a proportional font (where different characters are different widths). The following two lines tell you which kind of font you're using. The arrow ends up in a different place for different font types and is right most of the time: You are using a [Proportional] [Monospaced] font ..............................
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Question: What internal variable can I use to read and write ASCII?

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Answer: The Link Variables are the only internal variables that will accept ASCII data. You must use the suffix ":A" on the link variable to allow the link variable to store ASCII data. For example: Link\State:A = "On"
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Is the documentation available in other formats, such as plain text (ASCII), or Postscript?

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Yes. The documentation is available in a number of different formats and compression schemes on the FreeBSD FTP site, in the /pub/FreeBSD/doc/ directory. The document's language and encoding. These are based on the locale names you will find under /usr/share/locale on your FreeBSD system. The current languages and encodings that we have for documentation are as follows: The document's format.
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How do I handle ASCII text input?

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You can use RasterMaster to create an image file from text input. RasterMaster will automatically rasterize any ASCII file you specify as input. You can also control the font type and other page properties. Additionally, our annotation options permit the creation of text or graphic overlays to an underlying image.
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Can I post to ask for some text drawn in ASCII?

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Probably not, unless we're REALLY bored. The reason for this is that there is a program called Figlet which does that sort of thing automatically -- you type in 'Jane Smith', and you get back ___ __, ( / ( o _/_ / / __, _ _ '. _ _ , / /_ _/_(_/(_/ /_(/_ (___)/ / /_(_(__/ /_ // (/ in this and a whole lot of other fonts (lettering styles). The ASCII text-art produced by Figlet can be quite stunning, so it's best to try it first before asking for help from the newsgroup.
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What is a "ASCII /plain text editor"?

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Help! I am trying to install a cgi script and keep getting a message like "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request." Help! I am trying to install a cgi script and keep getting a message like "Premature end of script headers". What do I do about a ....malformed header from script. Bad header=No recipient address found.....error
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V.10. Do I have to produce in plain ASCII text?

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Certainly not if it doesn't make sense. To take an extreme example, if you're working in Japanese or Arabic, or creating audio files, there is no point in trying to reproduce that in ASCII! Where the text can largely be expressed in ASCII, we do want to post an ASCII version, even if it is somewhat degraded compared to the original. However, we will post your file in as many open formats as you want to create, so that your original work is available for those who have the software to read it.
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Do they store text data as ASCII or Unicode?

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Either. There are two types, 8-bit and 16-bit descriptors. The 8-bit variant is used to store ASCII characters and raw binary data. The smallest data unit in these is a ???narrow??? 8 bit (1 byte) character. The 16-bit type is used to store Unicode characters; for these, the data unit is a ???wide??? 16-bit (2 byte) character.
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Can I use non-ASCII characters?

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Yes! You should use the Unicode character set which is available in later editions of Word and WordPerfect (Authentic and OpenOffice use this set by default). Unicode characters cover a vast array of the world's languages. In some cases, characters are not available in Unicode. If that is the case, you should create the character or characters as an image file (.png format).
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What kinds of images and text can I use?

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All images must be sent to us in gif, jpg, or png formats and must be the exact size of the space you are purchasing. All images and text must be legal and decent, and appropriate for general viewing. We reserve the right to refuse images or text that, in our opinion, are unsuitable for whatever reason. Your text must use the standard English character set, but may be in a language other than English. You must, however, send us an English translation of your text.
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Can I use accented text?

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It depends. If you are typing in a different language (writing a foreign language guide, quoting a script, etc.) then it's ok. If you're just trying to use it to be disruptive (example; RR and LL are Spanish "letters". LL sounds like y and RR sounds like a purr. If you use LL like this: LLa, then it’s disruptive) then no.
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What is ASCII?

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ASCII is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s). 128 possible characters are defined. UNIX and DOS-based operating systems (except for Windows NT) use ASCII for text files. Windows NT uses a newer code, Unicode. IBM's System 390 servers use a proprietary 8-bit code called EBCDIC.
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What if I want a descriptor to hold ASCII text?

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There are some cases where you do need to hold 8-bit text: MIME types, or binary data, for example. To do this, you should explicitly use the 8 bit descriptors: The amount of stack space on Symbian OS is pretty limited (the default is 8 KB). So you should avoid creating large stack-based descriptors when it is unnecessary to do so. Symbian OS sometimes makes it easy to transgress this rule, by defining a number of classes and typedefs that can be used inefficiently on the stack.
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How does the OCR.Net Component generate ASCII text?

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The OCR Component uses four neural network files to determine ASCII text. Each neural network represents one of the four CharacterSets (Upper Case, Lower Case, Numeric, and Special Characters). The OCR Component then uses heuristic techniques to differentiate between the four CharacterSets. You can tell the OCR Component which CharacterSets to use in its processing. For example, if you have a document that is all upper case, its recommended to only use the Upper Case CharacterSet. Our OCR.
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Question: Can I export information to a file in an ASCII text format?

Answer: Yes, you can export Census and Contributions information to an ASCII text file. PCMS can also be exported into other file types like an excel spreadsheet, database file, or to the clipboard for example.
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How can I convert a TeX or LaTeX file to a text (ascii) file?

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There is a program called detex that can be used to strip away TeX and LaTeX commands, but it is not a great solution (it is designed to be a pre-processor for a spelling checker). Maybe the best solution is to generate a postscript file and then use ps2ascii to convert from postscript to ascii. From the man page: ps2ascii uses gs(1) to extract ASCII text from PostScript(tm) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
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What is the difference between pressure sensitive labels and ASCII text format?

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Pressure sensitive labels are peel-and-stick labels. ASCII test format is a comma-delimited text file in electronic format that can be used by mailhouses to print addresses (a process known as ink jetting) directly onto the mailpiece. When working with a mailhouse to send your mailing, ONS recommends this format. You will save additional mailhouse costs associated with the manual labor required to "peel and stick" each pressure-sensitive label.
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Why do you provide the data in both comma delimited ASCII text and Microsoft Excel formats?

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Originally, our databases were provided only in comma delimited ASCII text. A couple of years ago we added the Microsoft Excel format because we wanted you to be able to see the data immediately and become familiar with the content. Most relational database management programs allow you import the data either from either the comma delimited text file or the MS Excel file.
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Can I read/write ascii text files with the AID language?

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Yes, Unibase by DMAC does allow read/write of ascii text files with the AID language. These text files must be in the "text" sub-directory under the ETROOT. They may NOT have an extension in the name. Sub-directories may exist under the "text" sub-directory.
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