Re: flexfax: sendfax works - faxmail and other frontends don't !!!

[Kestas Liaugminas <kestas@blue.ot.lt>]

David Woolley wrote:
> 
> > fxStr   sender("Kestas \128\129\130\131\132\133\134\135");
>                          !!!!!!!!   These are not valid octal numbers
>                          ################################
> 
> Treated as (broken) octal, these are ASCII X, Y, X, Y, Z, [, \, ],
Sorry. It's my first program...
> and should print.  However, I would expect the 8 to terminate the \128,
> resulting in a line feed (newline) which might well terminate the string.
> Treated as decimal they are invalid in ISO 8859/* and Unicode, and fall
> into the C2 control set on most terminals.  Valid ISO 8859/1 characters
> start at 160 decimal (\240), with non breaking space, which produces no
> graphic; the first printing high bit character is \241.
> 
> For clarification, I believe your C++ is equivalent to:
> 
> fxStr   sender("Kestas \n8\n9XYZ[\\]");
	Now I compiled xmbdfed (something like font viewer...), so I have table
with letters and corresponding codes (I use bdftopcf to convert .bdf
code to .pcf font). The string now looks like:  
fxStr  
sender("Kestas\101\102\103\141\142\143\150\151\152\176\241\242\266");
                        A   B   C   a   b   c   h   i   j   ~   ?   ?  
?
All letters looks OK up to \176. All others, which have code >176, are
skipped (I mark them as ?). I can't understand, where the program cuts
out these characters... 
> 
> It is *not* usual to have Unix systems with locale's corresponding to IBM
> Code Page 437 or 85* and the default code for Linux is ASCII/ ISO 8859/1.
> 
> Slackware linux has a man page for ISO 8859/1.

Thank for help

Kestas