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Re: ASCIIifying

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 21:08
Robert B Wilson scripsit:

> 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...
By "Western European" Microsoft means Win-1252, which is indeed an upward compatible extension of Latin-1 (basically, it assigns an assortment of useful graphic characters in the 80-9F slots, which are extra control characters in Latin-1). Here are the Win-1252 characters that are *not* in Latin-1: 80 U+20AC #EURO SIGN 82 U+201A #SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK (German) 83 U+0192 #LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK (florin sign) 84 U+201E #DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK (German) 85 U+2026 #HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS 86 U+2020 #DAGGER 87 U+2021 #DOUBLE DAGGER 88 U+02C6 #MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT 89 U+2030 #PER MILLE SIGN 8A U+0160 #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON 8B U+2039 #SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (guillemet) 8C U+0152 #LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE 8E U+017D #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON 91 U+2018 #LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK 92 U+2019 #RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK 93 U+201C #LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK 94 U+201D #RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK 95 U+2022 #BULLET 96 U+2013 #EN DASH 97 U+2014 #EM DASH 98 U+02DC #SMALL TILDE 99 U+2122 #TRADE MARK SIGN 9A U+0161 #LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON 9B U+203A #SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (guillemet) 9C U+0153 #LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE 9E U+017E #LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON 9F U+0178 #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS -- Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor tidings sent from far John Cowan coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that www.ccil.org/~cowan O'Hare Doctor in heaven was. Sad was the man that word www.reutershealth.com to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful. All jcowan@reutershealth.com she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay. _Ulysses_, "Oxen"