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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:05:37 PST
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- From: Jack Hamilton <jfh@NETCOM.NETCOM.COM>
- Subject: Re: Lower-case alphabetic set
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- In-Reply-To: <9301070709.AA11784@apple.com>; from "Jim McMaster" at Jan 6,
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- Jim McMaster wrote:
- >
- >Your technique would work in an ASCII system, bacause all upper-case
- >alphabetics are in the range X'41'-X'5A' (with no intermixed
- >characters), and lower-case alphabetics are X'61'-X'7A'.
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- Only for business English. I don't think it would be true for poetic
- English, which uses some special accented characters (double-dot over the O
- in coordinate, backward slash over the last e in despised), and it's not
- true for many European languages with accented characters as part of the
- regular character set.
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- Is there a generic name for those character sets, other than "8-bit"?
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