Re: ANSI vs ASCII

["Russ W. Urquhart" Russ.Urquhart@xxxxxxxx]

I was under the impression, as you were, that the characters < 128 were ANSI
as well as ASCII.

Have you asked Nota Bene how they define an ANSI character, or what that
character set consists of?

Russ


On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:37:41PM -0500, Richard Giering wrote:
> Can anyone tell me when a character (less than decimal 32) is an ANSI
> but not an ASCII character. I wrote to Nota Bene asking for information
> on how to use the XYWRITE end of paagraph symbol - the arrow (Decimal
> 27) - in place of the paragraph symbol (decimal 20) that they use. I
> thought that for characters less than 128, the terms ANSI and ASCII were
> synonymous
>  I received the following reply, that I don't understand:
>
> On the issue of the substituting an arrow for the paragraph symbol:
> while the arrow was an ASCII character, it is not an ANSI character, and
> only ANSI characters can be substituted..
>
> Dick Giering
>