Character sets are supported through printer and screen fonts and keyboard input methods. The correct combinations of fonts and input methods are usually installed as part of the system installation.
ASCII is one of the most widely used character sets, but unfortunately, defines characters only up to CHR$(127) and excludes many characters necessary in languages throughout the world. Other character sets define characters up to CHR$(255) and include other necessary characters. The following paragraphs describe several of these character sets. HTBasic has built-in support for one character set, but the capability is present for users to add support for other character sets.
Japanese-enabled versions of HTBasic, when run in Japanese mode, allow use of two-byte characters using the ISO-932 and Shift-JIS character sets.
Character set tables for code pages 850, 437, Roman-8, Latin-1, ISO-932 and an overview of the Shift-JIS character set are given at the end of this section.
