Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:16706 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:464 comp.emacs:3691 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!killer!bobc From: bobc@killer.UUCP (Bob Calbridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world! Summary: jocularity Message-ID: <4581@killer.UUCP> Date: 25 Jun 88 02:50:36 GMT References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 26 In article <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se>, newsuser@LTH.Se (Lund Institute of Technology news server) writes: > Why? Well, we are sure the intelligent reader already grasps the > reason. Take a look at the IBM PC character code set a b o v e > ASCII 127. Our alphabet is there, too, and you just can't imagine > what funny results your tools yield when encountering them. > So, if your pet program is to become our pet, too, you have > to rethink concerning using the 8th bit as a flag, you have > to rewrite toupper, tolower, word scan, delete word, word > counters and the like. :-) But then that's why, as you included in your missive it's called ASCII. The A stands for American. Is there there such as thing as ISCII??? I can just imagine the loops and whirls you would have to go through to write a viable sort routine to include new alpha sorts. And who's to determine what the order of sort would be. I'll see ya at the international conference where we can hash this out. :-] Just for fun. Bob