Re: Proportional font in XY-Win

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

Nathan Sivin:

>"ASCII" designates a group of 256 characters, letters, numbers,
>punctuation, and characters used in drawing boxes etc. Most people use
>the term for the first 128 of these.

I thought it was the other way around. ASCII, being a seven-bit code,
designates the first 128 of the 256 eight-bit bytes, whereas many people
(if not most) insist on using it to refer to all 256--which of course leads
to various confusions.
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Peter Evans