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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Here's an EASY one for you
Keywords: Lazy, Lame, Arexx, Characters, pointers, Dac.
Message-ID: <1142@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 91 09:01:23 GMT
References: <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1080@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Apr21.050018.20966@uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Apr21.050018.20966@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>In article <1080@cbmger.UUCP>, peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>> In article <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>> >
>> > I could put all 95 characters in the
>>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >lookup table
>> >--
>> 
>> Ehm, I think here's a flame necessary: WHY THE H*LL DO YOU ONLY RECOGNIZE
>> 95 CHARACTERS??? From my counting, the Amiga character set holds excatly
>> double as many chars!!! And when I'm on my way: Why the h*ll are those
>> quite normal characters always represented as dots (== non-chars) in
>> hex dumps? Why?
>> 
>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. 

And some 10 years ago the whole world found they couldn't neglect the
markets in non-english countries and provided 8-bit character sets.
All different ones, though :-(

>All those eight bit combination are not really valid characters.

Come on, WAKE UP! We live in 1991 here, not in stone-age EBCDIC days!

>Perhaps it's time to standardize on a larger character set, hopefully
>with an extension escape hatch, hopefully more useable than the
>shift in SI and shift out SO characters provided in ASCII.

Boy, you obviously didn't read the thread about international character
sets some weeks ago. There are many attempts for standardization going
on. The Amiga characterset follows a standard, the ISO one (the "I"
stands for international! :-). 

And why that extension cripple? Every computer I know today (yes, also
the UNIX boxes) rely on memory organised in 8-bit bytes or multiples
of them. Why not use that MSB? WHY?

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk