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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)
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Subject: Re: 7-bit ASCII vs. 8-bit ASCII
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Date: 18 Apr 89 13:31:01 GMT
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From article <2568@ndsuvax.UUCP>, by nukim@ndsuvax.UUCP (kyongsok kim):
> In article <2542@ndsuvax.UUCP> nukim@ndsuvax.UUCP (kyongsok kim) writes:
> :    In some book, I found that there is a 8-bit ASCII-8 code,
> :which is different from the 7-bit code w/ a leading zero prefixed.
> :The book says that, for example, "A" is 1010 0001 and "1" is 0101 0001
> :in 8-ASCII code.
> 
> Thanks to all who responded to my question.  Here goes the summary:
> 
>> The original IBM System 360 had a special ASCII-8 mode ...
>> It was never implemented...   (etc.)

     8-bit ASCII is simply the American Standard corresponding to
     ISO Latin 1, ISO 8859/1-9.  The statement of equivalence, and 
     a table displaying the character set, appeared in Byte several 
     years ago (circa 1985-1987); unfortunately, I don't remember the
     exact issue, nor have I ever gotten around to looking it up.

     (One of those things I've always meant to do, but never gotten done)

     At any rate, check Byte over roughly that time span, and post the
     *exact* reference for the rest of us, if you would...

     (BTW, since 8-bit ASCII contains all the European characters,
      it is quite unfortunate that there is so much inertia in industry...)


     Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu