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Re: XYWRITE digest 1043

>>ASCII does not include, or recognize, any character with a diacritic.
>>ASCII is a seven-bit code and thus doesn't have space for such
>>fripperies.

That an untruth is perpetuated, even enthusiastically proselytized, does
not make it true.

> NB: Where do I get this feeling of deja vu from?

I don't know. I get mine from, inter alia,

> alt-shift represents ASCII 008 and ASCII 250, etc.

which is absurd. Anybody interested in facts rather than myths may like
to look at http://www.wps.com/texts/codes/index.html and the documents
to which it links.

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