Confused about hexadecimal codes

[Pat Bensky]

Jeremy,

Thanks - that's what I was afraid of! I was hoping to be able to use the
generic code that I use for other purposes and avoid having to write a
mapping system. Oh well.

Pat


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> From: "Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy at omsys.com>
> Organization: Omni Systems, Inc.
> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:15:58 -0700
> To: Frame Users <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Cc: Pat Bensky <pbensky at catbase.com>
> Subject: Re: Confused about hexadecimal codes
> 
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 15:43:58 +0100, Pat Bensky <pbensky at catbase.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm fiddling about with a program that creates MIF files and changing one of
>> its behaviours - instead of inserting character tags for special characters,
>> such as <Char Tab>, I want to use the hexadecimal code. According to the
>> Frame Character_Sets manual, the hex code for a tab (for example) is \x08.
>> However logic - and every other hex code reference that I've checked - tells
>> me it's 09, not 08 (logical because the ASCII code for a tab is 9). 08 is
>> the code for a backspace. Even odder is that the 08 code does seem to work
>> as a tab with FrameMaker.
>> 
>> Why is this different? And how can I tell which other codes are different
>> from the standard set, other than checking each one individually?
>> 
>> I'm puzzled about this! Anybody got any answers?
> 
> FrameMaker uses its own character set internally, similar to
> (but not identical to) the Mac character set.  It's documented
> in the FrameMaker Quick Reference booklet, and in:
>   \yourframedir\OnlineManuals\Character_Sets.pdf
> which appears to be the doc you are looking at.
> 
> A *lot* of codes are different from the standard ANSI set.  We
> use mapping tables in Mif2Go.  Note that for "dingbats" fonts,
> the mapping is *different* from that for "normal" fonts.  ;-)
> 
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>   <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/