15 Feb
2025
15 Feb
'25
12:38 p.m.
On 2025-02-15 1:14 p.m., Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
On 15/02/2025 20:53, ben via cctalk wrote:
IT IS MORE AMERICAN THAN ENGLISH. MY TWO ¢'S WORTH OF COMMENT.
The point is you have a different national code page under ASCII.
Accents should have been like hard copy terminals, as a over strike
character for video terminals.
Oddly it is the loss of [] that I complain about, with the pre-IBM PC
ASCII.
Some how 6 bit characters seems more standard,
text wise,
compared with the mess with accented characters and money characters
of today.
6 bit characters were fine if you didn't care about proper
capitalization and your only language was English. Julf
Ben.