15 Mar
2002
15 Mar
'02
7:13 p.m.
Hi,
philip(a)awale.qc.ca said:
ISO 646 was supposed to deal with that problem...but how many computers
support it?
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
On 15-Mar-2002 John Lawson wrote:
AFAIK it still is. Ayway, characters > 127 differ between machines.
[snip]
The code was the first 8-bit standard code that
allowed characters, such
as those found on a keyboard, to be represented by the same codes on
many different kinds of computers.
Wasn't ASCII orignally 7-bit? "He traveled all over the world defining
what this code would represent.
This is the code that is still used in PCs today," Silberg said.
Huh?! All over the world, but didn't seem to stray to a
non-english-speaking country. ASCII serves very poorly for those of us
who need accents.