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Re: [MacPerl] HTML Character Conversion
At 22:52 +0100 12/20/98, Matt Henderson wrote:
> Interestingly, 157 is the ASCII decimal code for ,
There is no ASCII decimal code for , which is not defined in the
ASCII character set. Various character sets which use the 128
positions which are defined in ASCII include ...the Mac set is one
(it was early, but is not dominant).
--John [whose office mate was on the subcommitte which produced the
standard for the extension of the ASCII character set from the 7-bit
environment to the 8-bit environment (still with only 128 characters
defined)...a process which represented one of the few times IBM lost
a standards battle in those days]
--
John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish,
and you get rid of him for the weekend.
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