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- From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
- Subject: Re: The Box-Drawing Charachters
- Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:33:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <BuE1K4.Ls7@NCoast.ORG>
- References: <1992Aug31.184726.1583@mits.mdata.fi> <la5apvINN8kb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <Bu9Lv8.6pL@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
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- In article <Bu9Lv8.6pL@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
- >
- >There is a lot of standards. EBCDIC is available on many FTP site
- >if you transfer text files using BINARY more. ASCII is standard if
- >under 0x80 and not over. IBM-ASCII is available on DOS machines.
- >ANSI-ASCII is available in DOS Windows (and it does not match IBM-ASCII)
- >and in many UNIX systems. MAC-ASCII is also different (Macintosh).
- >Names (i.e. IBM-ASCII) are not the official ones (if they exist).
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- A recent number of PC Magazine talks about Unicode, a 16-bit scheme that
- intends to cover all characters from a great many languages. ECMA
- Latin-1 and ASCII would be saubsets of this.
-
- And an ISO standard for 32-bit character codes is in the works, good for
- about four thousand million characters (if my mental arithmetic is
- right). The Unicode would be a subset of that standard, though the
- article suggested that the ISO standard was a long way off because of
- politicking on the committee.
- --
- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
-
- "Never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll only waste your time and annoy the
- pig." --Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Steve Martindill, for identifying the source.)
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