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In article <6672@boring.UUCP> guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>I don't know whether the Macintosh character set (which is a superset
>of ASCII and contains most accented or otherwise slightly modified
>characters found in various Western European languages, but does not
>support differenty alphabets) would be acceptable as a standard,
>but at least it addresses the problems that are encountered most
>frequently, it fits in 8 bits and is compatible with ASCII.
>
>(I'm afraid that there is another standard extension of ASCII which
>uses up the 8th bit for lots of control codes like cursor up.
>However this does not seem to have caught on very much.)

There is another standard extension of ASCII which is used for the IBM
PC.  It has a fair number of modified characters; I don't know how it
compares with the Macintosh set.  (It does not have the eastern European
c's, s's, or z's with curlicues; it does have the vaguely similar French
c.)  It also has a fair selection of special characters.  I am not
actually recommending it, just putting it up for consideration.  Given
the source, I think it has to be taken into account.

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