Foreign..zip

A new feature enabled by version 2.14 Apex II Operating System is Apex II Foreign Character Sets. Other portable data collection terminal manufacturers have offered what they call "foreign characters sets". These offerings typically consist of some type of multiple key depression sequences that produces one of the extended ASCII characters.

Upon close evaluation you will notice that these manufactures do not address a true foreign character set. Only a subset of the extended ASCII character codes is addressable, thereby leaving out some of the required foreign characters.

The Apex II foreign character set produces not only extended ASCII characters but true foreign characters for Danish, Portuguese, German and Spanish. You will not see these characters available in other portable data collectors.

FOREIGN.ZIP is a simple BASIC demo program for the Apex II that creates a LCD screen to display each character set by country.