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- From: Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Jr Comm bugs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.235655.17639@ninja.zso.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:56:55 GMT
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- In article <65946@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4476a@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Alberghini) writes:
-
- >
- > I have been having a problem with JR Comm for a while now.
- >[...]
- >Also, where is a font that will let me see ANSI characters? I can get
- >ANSI codes but the chars. are not the little blocks and triangles of
- >IBMs.
-
- Just to pick nits. The Amiga already does ANSI characters. I know it's
- popular to call the IBM PC character set "ANSI", but it isn't. The IBM
- "little blocks and triangles" character set is of their own invention.
-
- The character set used by the Amiga is ISO 8859-1 which is the same as
- the ASCII characters in the first 128 positions. That's about as "ANSI"
- as you can get. And the high 128 positions are ISO standardized, which
- can't be said for IBM's.
-
- There, I feel better now.
-
- >Mike Alberghini, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, 30332
-
- -hans
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