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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 30 May 2003 16:52:57 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Allan Bedford wrote:
   This isn’t the prettiest version I’ve ever seen, but a number of the ASCII escape values can be found here, including accented characters used in French words:

http://www.wswise.com/index.php?sectionid=43

Please note that the above chart is not an ASCII chart.

ASCII character codes range from 0 to 127 and nothing else. What the chart shows is the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set. But it’s not even correct at that, because 128 through 159 are undefined in ISO-8859-1.

--Todd (pedant :-)



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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) My bad. Sorry about that. (...) I guess I have always seen the codes above 127 referred to as the 'Extended ASCII' set. Perhaps that's neither accurate nor official. Still... I'm really enjoying the results of these changes. All the best! (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) You might want to try typing ALT + 162 to get the ¢ sign. Though as I've mentioned in another posting... for some reason, I need to type ALT + 0162 to get the right value. I'm still wondering if this is me doing something wrong, or if this is (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

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