Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:3576 comp.unix.wizards:22216 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: filename separators and option indicators Keywords: separator, delimiter,~,`,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,),-,_,=,+,[,{,],},\,|,',",;,:,/,?,.,>,',',< Message-ID: <3410@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 31 May 90 00:56:48 GMT References: <150@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> <1990May30.045903.14249@agate.berkeley.edu> Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 26 > And I think that apply to other Indo-European language character sets >also (Suppose British uses starling figure for the place of backslash?) Some, but not all. I suspect the ISO 646 character set for the UK may substitute "pounds sterling" for "dollar sign". The ISO 646 character sets are 7-bit character sets; mostly ASCII, but a few character positions are designated for "national characters". The US version is ASCII. However, if you go for the more state-of-the-art ISO 8859 character sets, you get to use the 8th bit; all the 8859 character sets are ASCII in the first 128 positions (8th bit zero), and have additional characters including accented letters, etc. in the next 128 positions. ISO 8859/1, the Western Europe and (North?) American (in the sense of the American continents, not the US) character set, has both "$" in the usual ASCII position, as well as "pound sterling". (There's also ISO 10646, which is a *big* character set under development that will supposedly give you all the characters in the world, or at least a big subset including Japanese & Chinese and the like....) >Come to think there's no cent figure for ASCII. Anyone know why? Not enough demand to cause some other character to be shoved out? ISO 8859/1 *does* have it, one position before "pound sterling".