Current Desktop capabilities - take 3.

Peter "Firefly" Lund firefly at diku.dk
Fri Jun 4 14:22:12 EEST 2004


On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Dave Cridland [Home] wrote:

> Which vendors? Plenty define a new character set of their choosing,
> but I've never heard of one trying to pass it off as ASCII.

That used to be quite common in Europe what with our silly little
diacritical marks, extra letters, and funny punctuation.

Better to say 7-bit ASCII to avoid even the possibility of a
misunderstanding.

-Peter





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