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From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANS Forth
Message-ID: <22042@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 30 May 91 17:42:34 GMT
References: <9105291726.AA13694@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9105291726.AA13694@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UNBCIC%BRFAPESP.BITNET@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV writes:
>We were talking about SOURCE code in blocks. Specifically, if CHAR should
>accept an >127 character.
>
.....
>If you want binary data input, you can use EKEY. It's provided for that.
>...
>Key accepts anything with 7 bits.

	This is clearly a terrible thing. ANSI standard extended ASCII, which is in use
on millions of our computers around the world, and millions of other machines, uses
characters >127 to represent the extended characters needed for European writing
(characters with tildes, etc). There are a lot more than 96 printable characters
in ASCII.

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