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  3.     by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f9HG1WI13928
  4.     for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:01:32 -0700 (MST)
  5. Message-Id: <200110171601.f9HG1WI13928@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
  6. Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:25:05 +1300 (NZDT)
  7. From: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
  8. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu, jsampson@indexes.u-net.com
  9. Subject: Re:  French colonic lavage revisited
  10. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  11. Status: RO
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  13.  
  14. "John Sampson" <jsampson@indexes.u-net.com> wrote:
  15.     Steve Wampler kindly helped me with the previous problem I had, but I am now
  16.     wondering if there is a DOS bug concerning this character. Or are there two
  17.     vertical stroke characters, one with a break in it and one without?
  18.  
  19. In ISO Latin 1, hence also in Windows CP 1252, there are indeed two
  20. vertical stroke characters, one with a break in it (0xA6) and one
  21. without (7C).  
  22.  
  23. >From the Unicode 3.1.1 MAPPINGS collection:
  24.   ISO Latin 1:
  25.     0x7C    0x007C  #       VERTICAL LINE
  26.     0xA6    0x00A6  #       BROKEN BAR
  27. In the VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS subcollection of MAPPINGS,
  28. grep '^0XDD[     ]' * found
  29. CP1250.TXT:0xDD 0x00DD  #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
  30. CP1251.TXT:0xDD 0x042D  #CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER E
  31. CP1252.TXT:0xDD 0x00DD  #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
  32. CP1253.TXT:0xDD 0x03AD  #GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS
  33. CP1254.TXT:0xDD 0x0130  #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE
  34. CP1255.TXT:0xDD         #UNDEFINED
  35. CP1256.TXT:0xDD 0x0641  #ARABIC LETTER FEH
  36. CP1257.TXT:0xDD 0x017B  #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
  37. CP1258.TXT:0xDD 0x01AF  #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN
  38. CP874.TXT:0xDD          #UNDEFINED
  39. CP932.TXT:0xDD  0xFF9D  #HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER N
  40. CP936.TXT:0xDD          #DBCS LEAD BYTE
  41. CP949.TXT:0xDD          #DBCS LEAD BYTE
  42. CP950.TXT:0xDD          #DBCS LEAD BYTE
  43.  
  44. and grep 'BROKEN BAR' * found
  45. CP1250.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  46. CP1251.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  47. CP1252.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  48. CP1253.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  49. CP1254.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  50. CP1255.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  51. CP1256.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  52. CP1257.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  53. CP1258.TXT:0xA6 0x00A6  #BROKEN BAR
  54. CP932.TXT:0xEEFA        0xFFE4  #FULLWIDTH BROKEN BAR
  55. CP932.TXT:0xFA55        0xFFE4  #FULLWIDTH BROKEN BAR
  56. CP936.TXT:0xA957        0xFFE4  #FULLWIDTH BROKEN BAR
  57.  
  58. There should not, therefore, be any disagreement about what 0xDD or 0xA6
  59. or BROKEN BAR are in any of the CP125? Windows character sets.
  60.  
  61.