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Re: *******REVERSE ASCII**********

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From: CARL-ERIC CODERE
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 00:00
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>>            I do not know why you need to know this, but It is possible that 
>>they simple added 127 to every character written .
>>i.e Char(02) becomes Char(129) ...

>I did believe that the times, when Americans (and Canadians) did 
>believe that their caracterset was the one and only are long gone...

>Most Europeans need more then $00..$7F expressing their languages,
>and so there is iso-8859-1 amoung others.

Greetings,
             I agree but he specified ASCII character set , not ANSI nor ISO! 
So I assumed he meant 7-bit characters.

And BTW: I also need those extended characters when I write in French :>


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From: cecodere@andrew.sca.usherb.ca (CARL-ERIC CODERE)
Subject: Re: *******REVERSE ASCII**********
Date: 1996/10/04
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