Re: The Box-Drawing Charachters

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From: Ross Ridge
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 20:28

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falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
>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.

Actually EBCDIC makes some sense if you're using punched cards (in fact
a lot of IBM things make sense if you think of punched cards), but if
you ever think you might be able to make sense of IBM's extended
character set (don't call it ASCII, ANSI had nothing to do with it),
just look at another code page.

							Ross Ridge

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From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: The Box-Drawing Charachters
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:28:49 GMT
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