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Apple II/IIc/IIe Keyboard Characters/Glyphs
Posted by: dcr on 2023-11-23 20:01:00 Does anyone have or know of a map of characters/glyphs that were available on the Apple II series keyboards? I've looked at images of the keyboards as well as typing characters into AppleWorks, but I'm trying to determine if there were any other "hidden" characters that maybe required pressing a certain combination of keys as on the Mac? I don't think the Apple II series could do bullets (•), the copyright and trademark symbols (©,®,™) or accented characters as in entrée or jalapeño, or pi (π), or various others, but I wanted to check for certain. Thanks!
Posted by: dcr on 2023-11-23 20:09:35 Wikipedia shows about 96 glyphs available from the keyboard, depending on what Apple model. But not ones like pi or copyright or stuff like that. So, I guess maybe the question is whether programs like AppleWorks allowed for more using key combinations? And, if so, which characters?
Posted by: Arbee on 2023-11-23 20:36:48 8-bit IIs could only do ASCII characters (there were modified models made for Japan and several European countries that added accentsd and other non-ASCII characters). The IIgs had the same limitations in text mode, but IIgs GUI applications using the Toolbox routines used the same MacRoman character set as contemporary 58k Macs.
Posted by: dcr on 2023-11-25 16:29:38 Thanks. I could not remember using any "special" characters in AppleWorks but I've learned it best not to rely strictly on my memory anymore.
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