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Article #237Re: French Standard Character Set.
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 06:41
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 06:41
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takayama@vcom.sony.co.jp (Yoshihisa Takayama) writes: >I wrote down my article in French language on Apple Macintosh personal >computer. There problem is occured when I moved to IBM-PC with my >article. Some characters does not appeared normally. ^a,^i,^u,^e,^o, >'a,'i,'u,'e,'o for instance. Which machine use IS (International >Standart). And does French people have some kind of standard? >Please forgive my ignorance. Give me more information! First of all, there are *several* "international standards. Second, these standards disagree. Third *NO* personal computer that I am aware of uses any of them. Anything other that 7-bit ASCII is *totally* machine-dependent. Sorry, but you are stuck unless you use a wordprocessor that is available on both machines *and* has compatible file formats on both. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short
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