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Defining the Gensym Character Set

The Gensym character set is comprised of these sets of characters:

Subset of ASCII Character Set and Special Characters

The Gensym character set includes 95 characters of the standard ASCII character set. The Gensym character set also includes 69 special characters. The figures titled Two Groups of Characters in the Gensym Character Set show how these characters appear when shown in free-text items upon a workspace in a G2 window.

To encode these characters in a file or data stream outside of G2, see Encoding ASCII Characters and Special Characters.

Note: The characters @ (at sign), \ (backslash), and ~ (tilde) are escape characters in the Gensym character set. To express these as literal characters, you must use the escape sequences defined for them, as shown in the table Encoding for ASCII and Special Characters.

Other Standard Character Sets

The Gensym character set includes the hiragana, katakana, and kanji characters specified in the JIS X 0208-1990 standard character set. To encode these characters in a file or data stream outside of G2, see Encoding Japanese Characters.

The Gensym character set includes the Hangul characters specified in the KS C 5601 standard character set. To encode these characters in a file or data stream outside of G2, see Encoding Korean Characters.

The Gensym character set includes the Cyrillic characters specified in the ISO 8859-5 standard character set. To encode these characters in a file or data stream outside of G2, see Encoding Russian Characters.

Two Groups of Characters in the Gensym Character Set



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