50g

I'm not sure what you want to do. The ASCII characters on the hp50 are no different from the PC, I think. And translating those char above 0x7f to ASCII doesn't make much sense. Maybe you can explain what you want to accomplish.

If you just want an easy way to enter the special symbols, you can use a development program like Debug4x...
http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=5441

Or, you can try using an hp48 font with something like Word to write your programs. Search www.hpcalc.org for TrueType to find some fonts. I think there's also one in Postscript.

Or, you can just memorize the digraphs (like \v/ and \|> etc.) and use any text editor. This is may be the simplest approach.

Below is a list of digraphs with their char codes I got from the Debug4x documentation...

Hex
Dec DiGraph
     Description
 
1F
 31 \1F
 
5C
 92 \\
 backslash
 
80
 128 \<)
 angle symbol
 
81
 129 \x-
 x with a bar
 
82
 130 \.V
 nabla operator
 
83
 131 \v/
 square root
 
84
 132 \.S
 integral symbol
 
85
 133 \GS
 Sigma
 
86
 134 \|>
 Bold triangle right
 
87
 135 \pi
 pi
 
88
 136 \.d
 derivative symbol
 
89
 137 \<=
 less or equal
 
8A
 138 \>=
 greater or equal
 
8B
 139 \=/
 unequal
 
8C
 140 \Ga
 alpha
 
8D
 141 \->
 right arrow
 
8E
 142 \<-
 left arrow
 
8F
 143 \|v
 down arrow
 
90
 144 \|^
 up arrow
 
91
 145 \Gg
 gamma
 
92
 146 \Gd
 delta
 
93
 147 \Ge
 epsilon
 
94
 148 \Gn
 eta
 
95
 149 \Gh
 theta
 
96
 150 \Gl
 lamda
 
97
 151 \Gr
 rho
 
98
 152 \Gs
 sigma
 
99
 153 \Gt
 tau
 
9A
 154 \Gw
 omega
 
9B
 155 \GD
 delta
 
9C
 156 \PI
 capital pi
 
9D
 157 \GW
 omega
 
9E
 158 \[]
 block cursor
 
9F
 159 \oo
 infinity
 
A4
 164 \oX
 BINT symbol (non-standard)
 
AB
 171 \<<
 program delimiters
 
B0
 176 \^o
 degree
 
BB
 187 \>>
 
D7
 215 \.x
 multiplication
 
D8
 216 \0/
 empty set
 
DF
 223 \Gb
 beta
 
F7
 247 \:-
 divide


 

ASCII shall receive, Hollerith and get it quicker


--- On Wed, 12/30/09, garyokada@rocketmail.com <garyokada@...> wrote:

> From: garyokada@... <garyokada@...>
> Subject: [50g] Character map for translation to ASCII
> To: 50g@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 6:19 PM
> Hi, I am new to the group.  I
> joined to learn more about the powerful calculator that we
> have chosen.  It would seem that a simple editor could
> be written to run on a PC if accurate translation of
> characters could be achieved.  While a character map
> could be constructed by keying in characters and saving them
> to a file, it would seem to be less time consuming to first
> inquire if anyone has come up with one.  One or two
> translation programs exist on a website for the
> HP49/50g.  I have not tested these.  If nothing
> else, these might work as a basis for the translation.
> 
> gary