Re: Discretionary characters (was: ... '[tilde]' Question)

[Carlo Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Eric Van Tassel wrote:
>
> When I first began playing around with XyWrite, I found some of my files
> and/or XPL routines doing funny things because I hadn't been warned about
> what some characters do. I'd still like to use odd characters (e.g. ASCII
> 127, the "small house" figure) as note-indicators or for other purposes,
> and I always hesitate for fear of unintended consequences.
>
> Cheers
> Eric Van Tassel
>

Eric, I think ASCII 127 is safe--that's precisely the character I replaced
with lower-case "oe," and I've been using it that way for five years with
no problem.

Ciao,
Carlo Caballero