Labels:book | poster | reckoner OCR: Chapter Getting Started The Character Set 1.3 Su character Set fora language defines the characters that can be used in the source code or input and output by a program. Some characters have special meaning for language and must be available in the character set character set for should contain both upper and lowercase alphabetic characters, the digits, and most of the punctuation. formatting. and graphic char- acters The ASCII collating sequence is used most often but other sequences such as EBCDIC could be used Theoretically, any compiler will be matched to the available character set on the underlying computer so that it is possible to deviate from the above requirements. Note that source code that uses character set with different char- acteristics may not be portable. The ASCII charac ...
