Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oberon.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!oberon!blarson From: blarson@oberon.UUCP (Bob Larson) Newsgroups: net.internat,net.misc Subject: Character sets, sorting etc. Message-ID: <150@oberon.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 04:20:43 EST Article-I.D.: oberon.150 Posted: Mon Oct 28 04:20:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 00:07:17 EST Reply-To: blarson@oberon.UUCP (Bob Larson) Organization: U. of So. Calif., Los Angeles Lines: 20 Xref: linus net.internat:69 net.misc:7433 [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 Arpa: Blarson@Usc-Ecl.Arpa Uucp: {the (mostly unknown) world}!ihnp4!sdcrdcf!oberon!blarson {several select chunks}!sdcrdcf!oberon!blarson