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Article #527Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
From: John B. Melby
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:11
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:11
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>I'm guessing:
>some writers are substituting US punctuations and probably are on
>machines that can't generate Scandinavian characters but others are
>apparently using machines that actually do create Scandinavian
>characters and are sending them in postings; they appear as US
>punctuations when the high bit is stripped.
The Northern European subsets of ISO 646 are 7-bit codes, so there
is no high bit to be stripped. Although they are relatively
obsolete, they are commonly used on the net, partially because
the net is not 8-bit transparent, and partially because they are
easily recognizable even by users with ASCII fonts.
[ { = AE or A:, ae or a:
] } = AA aa (more precisely, aring, a.k.a. Angstrom symbol)
\ | = O/ or O:, o/ or o:
If these characters were written in Latin-1, stripping the 8th bit would
often result in different letters (such as "x" for "o:").
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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!fgw!fdm!ace!melby From: melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.french,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news) Message-ID: <MELBY.93Jan22121143@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp> Date: 22 Jan 93 12:11:43 GMT References: <1gi57dEINN2p7@uni-erlangen.de> <1992Dec14.161106.8111@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan3.013554.521@newstand.syr.edu> <1993Jan21.005656.25514@newstand.syr.edu> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Followup-To: comp.std.internat Organization: Open Systems Group, Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama Lines: 24 In-reply-to: ddawson@rodan.acs.syr.EDU's message of 21 Jan 93 05:56:56 GMT