Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.internat,net.misc Subject: Re: Character sets, sorting etc. Message-ID: <763@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:41:52 EST Article-I.D.: mmintl.763 Posted: Sun Nov 3 21:41:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 07:42:45 EST References: <150@oberon.UUCP> <6672@boring.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 22 Xref: linus net.internat:86 net.misc:7477 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. Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108