Character Set

[David Emery]

Quick one hopefully, writting software to measure Resistance (HTBasic Plus) and would like to use the Omega symbol instead of ‘Ohms’. Tried various CHR$(××) but with no luck. Is there a easy way to insert this symbol?

Windows 7 32bit

[Mark Thuer]

The bad news: HTBasic’s native character set is HP Roman‑8 (the same one used by classic HP‑BASIC/HP‑GL instruments), and Roman‑8 simply doesn’t include the ohm sign (Ω).

[ZeRider]

I don’t know if that could help, but Ohm symbol is possible in Graphic mode

      ! Initialize Graphic mode
       ! Change Character Set to "Symbol"
       ! Display Ohm sybol ("W" letter)
       !
       GCLEAR
       GFONT IS "Symbol"
       MOVE 10,50
       LABEL "W"
       !
       END

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