Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Here's an EASY one for you Message-ID: <1991Apr21.200938.25760@sugar.hackercorp.com> Keywords: Lazy, Lame, Arexx, Characters, pointers, Dac. Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1080@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Apr21.050018.20966@uncecs.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 20:09:38 GMT In article <1991Apr21.050018.20966@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes: > Well as we all know almost the whole world except for IBM decided > some 30 years ago to go with the ASCII-7bit character set. Actually, in Europe they went with ISO646, a common set of character sets that is largely the same as ASCII but has a number of optional letters that differ by country to allow you to use national characters with diacriticals like umlauts, accents, etc. > Perhaps it's time to standardize on a larger character set It's been done: ISO 8859.1, which is what the Amiga uses. A STANDARD 8-bit character set. > I would have left it at the one line quip about 7 bit ASCII Well, that's the whole point. The Amiga uses a standard 8-bit character set, and your tirade demonstrates why people are tired of people who don't know what it's all about... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .