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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: output of special characters
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:17:59 +0200
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 06:36:19 -0700 (PDT), tonyg wrote:

> I want to output a special character to the screen 
> namely the ascii special symbol  degree ascii (176)
> 
> anyone know?

Provided Latin-1 encoding (because ASCII is 7-bit):

   Character'Val (176)

All depends on the terminal emulation mode, e.g. the code page. For
example, if the console expects UTF-8 then that would be

   Character'Val (16#c2#) & Character'Val (16#b0#)

etc.

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