Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Xerox Character Code Standard (was 7-bit ASCII vs. 8-bit ASCII)
Message-ID: <1989Apr23.052434.17100@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2568@ndsuvax.UUCP> <5153@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1468@auspex.auspex.com> <622@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 05:24:34 GMT

In article <622@marob.MASA.COM> cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) writes:
>...The sequence of 255 followed
>by a byte means "change to the character set numbered by the byte".
>Therefore, regular ASCII strings are automatically in compressed Xerox format,
>since their characters are already in set 0! ...

However, ISO Latin 1 strings aren't necessarily in compressed Xerox format,
because 255 is a printable character in ISO Latin, as I recall.
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