Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!parsely!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.std.misc Subject: Re: French Standard Character Set. Message-ID: <1842@bucket.UUCP> Date: 24 Dec 89 06:41:48 GMT References: Distribution: comp.std.misc Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR. Lines: 20 takayama@vcom.sony.co.jp (Yoshihisa Takayama) writes: >I wrote down my article in French language on Apple Macintosh personal >computer. There problem is occured when I moved to IBM-PC with my >article. Some characters does not appeared normally. ^a,^i,^u,^e,^o, >'a,'i,'u,'e,'o for instance. Which machine use IS (International >Standart). And does French people have some kind of standard? >Please forgive my ignorance. Give me more information! First of all, there are *several* "international standards. Second, these standards disagree. Third *NO* personal computer that I am aware of uses any of them. Anything other that 7-bit ASCII is *totally* machine-dependent. Sorry, but you are stuck unless you use a wordprocessor that is available on both machines *and* has compatible file formats on both. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short