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From: jack@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Character sets, sorting etc.
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:35:36 EST
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In article <6672@boring.UUCP> guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) writes:

>(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.)
>
>	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (guido@mcvax.UUCP)


As far as I remember, this 8 bit ASCII (which isn't called ASCII, by the
way, but ISO-something-or-other) uses codes 0200-0240 for extra control
functions, and 0241-0277 for extra characters.
I even think that if you take a letter in normal ASCII, and add bit 8, you
still have a letter (be it a different one, of course:-).

Since this code seems to have been more-or-less accepted (I know of at least
two terminals that accept it, or part of it), I guess the MAC will probably
use the same code.

If there is interest, I'll type in the code-table (more-or-less, of course).
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.