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Old December 9th 19, 02:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Carlos E.R.[_3_]
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On 09/12/2019 14.01, Dan Purgert wrote:
Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote


| Though I think your Spanish ANSI would
| probably work OK for me. Tilde, for example, is in the
| English ANSI system. Presumably they had the sense to
| use the same character codes in all Euro ANSI codepages.
|
| That's because "we English" pave over the language of
| other people. That's how, magically, everything we
| type "can be represented in ASCII".


No. What I mean is that the basic English codepage includes
most Euro characters in the 128+ range.


Sure, but that's not typically considered to be the "ASCII" characterset
anymore. At least as I recall, "ASCII" is only the characters contained
in the lower 128 bits (0x00 to 0x7f) of the larger "ANSI English"
character set (well, in Windows as codepage 1250 or something. As I
recall, ANSI never released anything after the draft -- it got rolled
into ISO8859)


Correct.

And the upper part, the 8 bit part, varies per the codepage.

When one bought an IBM PC or clone in the USA, and one saw that you
could write accented letters such as áéÃ*óú or ñ or Ñ, with many (not
all) of the European special letters, that is codepage 437. Just one of
the many codepages available. On each country, one had to select the
correct codepage for the country.

That is, the 127 upper chars are variable in 8 bit ascii, have different
"drawings". And there is usually no indication in the text file what
codepage they are actually using.

Thar "basic English codepage" does not include the € (euro) symbol, for
instance.

The mentality of thinking that ascii is good enough conducts to
documents and software that translates badly or with difficulty, that
can be used only in one country.

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Cheers, Carlos.
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