Using the extended ASCII character set
The standard version of Quantum recognizes printable characters (except DEL) in the standard ASCII character set; that is, decimal values 32–126. Characters in the extended character set (that is, 128–255) are set to blank and have the following results in a run:
▪If Quantum finds a character outside the standard range it issues an error message and sets the column to blank.
▪If a column in the data is set to a multicode which does not correspond to one of the standard characters (for example, ‘09’ is the same as the letter Z) Quantum puts an asterisk in the column and then lists the bits in the multicode at the end of the card.
If you have data that contains non-ASCII characters, and you do not want Quantum to treat them as miscellaneous multicodes, you can modify your version of Quantum to accept some or all characters in the extended ASCII character set.
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