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Re: Inserting accent marks

From:David Starner <starner@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 8, 2002, 5:36
>Many accented chars. are available
>in ASCII (nos. up to 255), though not all of them transmit to everyone, e.g.
>Alt+0154 &#353; (s-hacek).

That's because they aren't in ASCII - ASCII is a 7-bit code, 0-177, including
characters only for English. Latin 1 added accented characters for western
Europe, and Microsoft added stuff like &#353; and the Euro into the space Latin-1
used for control characters that Windows doesn't need.

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Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>