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Re: XYWRITE digest 1043

Bill Mallon:

> the Western European accent marks are not a major problem - the
> acutes, graves, umlauts, circumflexes,etc. ASCII recognizes
> these and they show up on the screen correctly.

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.

I realize that "ASCII", "US ASCII", "IBM ASCII" and other terms have
been used by various computer journalists and the like (some of them
purporting to be experts), for one or more eight-bit codes, but such
uses are seriously misleading as well as plain wrong.

See http://czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.html and the links therefrom.

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