Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!mcvax!boring!jack From: jack@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.internat,net.misc Subject: Re: Character sets, sorting etc. Message-ID: <6681@boring.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:35:36 EST Article-I.D.: boring.6681 Posted: Tue Nov 5 08:35:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 05:48:51 EST References: <150@oberon.UUCP> <6672@boring.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 23 Xref: linus net.internat:88 net.misc:7488 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL 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.