D70 "Comments area" question

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Does anyone know how to get the copyright symbol (the circled "cee" ) to come
up using Nikon Capture 4 Camera Control?

D.

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Sorry. That's my issue as well. It won't accept the character from the map.

Thanks.

D.


"Owamanga" <owamanga(not-this-bit)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 12 May 2005 06:46:50 -0700, "Douglas Tourtelot"
> <tourtelot@nospanspeakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know how to get the copyright symbol (the circled "cee" ) to
>>come
>>up using Nikon Capture 4 Camera Control?
>>
>
> Hold down the alt-key and type 0169 using the numerical keypad, then
> let go of the alt-key. Any windows app that can understand the ANSI
> character set will register that symbol.
>
> Others you may find useful:
>
> 0188 1/4
> 0189 1/2
> 0190 3/4
> 0174 (R)
> 0153 TM
>
> What I can't work out, is how to get the (C) into the D70's comment on
> the camera itself.
>
> --
> Owamanga!
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Douglas Tourtelot <tourtelot@nospanspeakeasy.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get the copyright symbol (the circled "cee" ) to come
> up using Nikon Capture 4 Camera Control?
>
> D.
>

I just use (c), but, unfortunately, that uses 3 characters rather than
one.

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Thanks all, (c) it is!

D.


"DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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> In article <PO-dneQvxfnnLB7fRVn-iA@giganews.com>,
> Douglas Tourtelot <tourtelot@nospanspeakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
>>"Owamanga" <owamanga(not-this-bit)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:7cq6811nd9cb559pqkdjri3mcghff6oiu2@4ax.com...
>
>>> On Thu, 12 May 2005 06:46:50 -0700, "Douglas Tourtelot"
>>> <tourtelot@nospanspeakeasy.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know how to get the copyright symbol (the circled "cee" ) to
>>>>come
>>>>up using Nikon Capture 4 Camera Control?
>
>>> Hold down the alt-key and type 0169 using the numerical keypad, then
>>> let go of the alt-key. Any windows app that can understand the ANSI
>>> character set will register that symbol.
>
> [ ... ]
>
>>> What I can't work out, is how to get the (C) into the D70's comment on
>>> the camera itself.
>>Sorry. That's my issue as well. It won't accept the character from the
>>map.
>
> The problem is probably that the camera is designed to work only
> with standard 7-bit ASCII (where the 8th bit is possibly used as a
> parity check, but as nothing else). This means that character code
> values from 0 through 127 are possible (with 0-31 being control
> characters which don't print, but instead move *where* the next print is
> to occur, other arcane things). Also -- 127 (0x7F, if you prefer hex)
> is the "RUBOUT" character -- used to delete things on punched tape,
> where actual physical deletion of the character was impractical.
>
> The copyright symbol you want is well above that point, as
> indicated by the suggested ALT code to generate it (169).
>
> So -- it is likely that the camera itself *cannot* display the
> copyright symbol (that would require double the size of the font ROM in
> the camera),
>
> *And* -- there is no *single* extension to the ASCII character
> set beyond the 7-bit characters, but rather quite a few of them, often
> varying even within a system, depending on what font set is selected,
> and quite certainly varying between differing systems. As an example, I
> use Sun Workstations, and with my chosen characterset (ISO-8859-15), the
> characters which are where the control characters would be, except with
> the parity bit set, are not displayable on my screens -- but I see them
> frequently used in documents from Windows systems.
>
> And for those which *do* print -- I sometimes see different
> characters than the original poster intended, as what I see is quite
> inappropriate where I see it.
>
> So -- the basic guideline is *don't* depend on extended ASCII
> characters being the same on anything other than *your* machine, with
> your currently selected characterset. If you want to communicate with
> others, stick to 7-bit ASCII.
>
> What I used in my D70 is the plain ASCII "(C)" (a common
> substitute for the copyright symbol), whose only disadvantage is that it
> takes up three (instead of only one) of the rather few character spaces
> in the annotation space in the D70.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.
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