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From: d88-bli@nada.kth.se (Bo Lindbergh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Serious programming question
Message-ID: <2245@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 31 Oct 89 19:31:56 GMT
References: <89295.142753CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET> <PETE.89Oct22200144@titan.rice.edu> <413@iconsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-bli@nada.kth.se (Bo Lindbergh)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <413@iconsys.UUCP> tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton) writes:
[ stuff about text editor data structures deleted ]
>                                   If you wanted to allow the use
>of different fonts, sizes, styles, etc, you might consider using
>high-bit set (non-ASCII) characters to indicate one of 128 "style"
>records (more if you have your code use one or more following bytes).

No, no, for Odin's sake NO!

You might call characters with codes above 127 "non-ASCII", but I call them
indispensable international characters.  An editor that won't let the user
use them is useless outside the USA.

#include <Generic flame about American provincialism>


   Bo Lindbergh