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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Character sets, sorting etc.
Message-ID: <255@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 21:07:48 EST
Article-I.D.: polaris.255
Posted: Wed Nov  6 21:07:48 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Nov-85 06:28:07 EST
References: <150@oberon.UUCP> <6672@boring.UUCP> <6681@boring.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Organization: IBM TJ Watson RC
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Summary: 

In article <6681@boring.UUCP> jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
>>(I'm afraid that there is another standard extension of ASCII which
>>uses up the 8th bit for lots of control codes like cursor up.
>>However this does not seem to have caught on very much.)
>>
>>	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (guido@mcvax.UUCP)
>
>
>As far as I remember, this 8 bit ASCII (which isn't called ASCII, by the
>way, but ISO-something-or-other) uses codes 0200-0240 for extra control
>functions, and 0241-0277 for extra characters.
>I even think that if you take a letter in normal ASCII, and add bit 8, you
>still have a letter (be it a different one, of course:-).

is this the same 8-bit ASCII code called US8-ASCII that was pushed
by IBM as the 8-bit standard character code when they announced the
360's (a long time ago).

Herb Chong...

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