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- From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: The Box-Drawing Charachters
- Date: 31 Aug 1992 23:29:03 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
- Lines: 18
- Message-ID: <la5apvINN8kb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <5265@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1992Aug31.184726.1583@mits.mdata.fi>
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- In article <1992Aug31.184726.1583@mits.mdata.fi> kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
- >>and if so how are the ordered?
- >
- >You know, it'd be interesting to find any intelligent order for
- >the entire extended IBM ASCII character set... The characters
- >seem to be organized by groups of 32's, but there are still
- >some very strange symbols among the accented characters, and
- >you can't even dream of finding some sort of organization
- >inside these groups. (I wonder why they included only some
- >characters of the Greek alphabet etc...)
-
- Go look at IBM's EBCDIC character set (where, for example, '~' comes
- between 'r' and 's') and ask yourself if you'd dream of finding some
- sort of organization in their extended IBM ASCII character set.
-
- -ed falk, sun microsystems
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