Re: ASCIIifying

On Tue, 6 May 2003 13:41:23 -0500 David Starner <dvdeug@...>
writes:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 03:51:00AM -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> > i assumed you meant 7-bit ascii (characters 0-127), as 8-bit ascii
> is
> > becoming quite rare (latin-1 is used instead)
>
> Arrgh! 8-bit ASCII does not, and has never existed, in a strict
> sense.
> In a loose sense, 8-bit ASCII includes Latin-1 as much as anything
> else.
> Furthermore, what you have below is not Latin-1; it's Microsoft
> CP1252.
> For most purposes, Latin-1 is a subset of CP1252, and OE and oe are
> not
> in Latin-1.
hmm... it's called latin-1 (or western european) everywhere in windows...
there is a windows-1252, but that seems to have the same character values
as the "ascii" in the qbasic help file...
i guess i shouldn't trust microsoft at all (instead of trusting them
about as much as i trust bill clinton...)

> David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro
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