Compaq LA36 user manual Selecting Character Sets

Command Sets

Selecting Character Sets

See Figure “Designating and Invoking Character Sets” later in this section.

Mnemonic	Function	Command	Remarks
ASCEF	Announce Subset	ESC SP L	ASCII in G0 and GL.
	of Code Extension		ISO Latin-1 in G1 and GR.
	Facilities	ESC SP M	Same as ESC SP L
		ESC SP N	ASCII in G0 and GL.
DECAUPSS	Assign User	DCS Ps ! u	Ps = 0: 94-char. set
	Preference	D . . . D ST	Ps = 1: 96-char. set
	Supplemental Set		D . . . D: SCS designating sequence.
	ISO Latin 9	DCS 1 ! u b ST	ST = 09/12 or Esc\
SS2	Single Shift 2	C1 Control	Take the next character from G2
		Code
		7-bit environment
		: ESC N
SS3	Single Shift 3	C1 Control	Take the next character from G3
		Code
		7-bit environment
		: ESC O
LS0	Locking Shift 0	SI	Invoke G0 into GL
	(or Shift In)
LS1	Locking Shift 1	SO	Invoke G1 into GL
	(or Shift Out)
LS2	Locking Shift 2	ESC n	Incoke G2 into GL
LS3	Locking Shift 3	ESC o	Invoke G3 into GL
LS1R	Locking Shift 1 Right	ESC ~	Invoke G1 into GR
LS2R	Locking Shift 1 Right	ESC }	Invoke G2 into GR
LS3R	Locking Shift 1 Right	ESC	Invoke G3 into GR
SCS	Select Character Set	ESC I1 I2 F	I1	= “(”: Invoke 94-char. set into G0
			I1	= “)”: Invoke 94-char. set into G1
			I1	= “*”: Invoke 94-char. set into G2
			I1	= “+”: Invoke 94-char. set into G3
			I1	= “-”: Invoke 96-char. set into G1
			I1	= “.”: Invoke 96-char. set into G2
			I1	= “/”: Invoke 96-char. set into G3
			I2	F = final characters from
			“SCS Final Characters” later in this

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