Re: XYWRITE digest 1043

["Yo Intl." rrr@xxxxxxxx]

At 12:27 PM 6/28/01 +0900, Peter Evans wrote:
>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.

Funny. How come here, on my very wall next to the computer, is page copied
from a Microsoft DOS handbook, that lists ASCII 1-256.

NB: I could have copied from the XYwrite documentation too, that does not
stop at 128, either.

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



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