Character sets, sorting etc.

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From: Bob Larson
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1985 09:20

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[Let's demonstrate the need by cross-posting to something other than
net.internat]

Some people seem to be under the mistaken impression that ASCII hasn't
changed.  Lower case letters were added in (rather than the shift-in /
shift-out cluge), _ was changed from left arrow to underline, ^ was chaned
from up arrow to carrot, etc.  I don't think adding an eighth bit would
change it enogh to consider it something other than ASCII.

Sorting order in ASCII realy isn't correct either.  Do you like all of your
upper case words coming before your lower case ones?  The sorting order
problem is realy one of replacing a case translator with a table lookup.
Hopefully the table could be make easy to change for working in different
languages.

-- 
Bob Larson
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Subject: Character sets, sorting etc.
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 04:20:43 EST
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