Re: The Box-Drawing Charachters

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From: Ed Falk
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:29

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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
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
	"Towards the end, the smell of their air began to change"

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From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
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Subject: Re: The Box-Drawing Charachters
Date: 31 Aug 1992 23:29:03 GMT
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