Re: [Request] Diamond
From Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove>
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· 16 Jan 2002 18:19 · View full thread
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=?ISO-8859-15?q?=22Beno=EEt= Rouits" <bro...@free.fr> writes: > In the case if you forgot that ASCII is now 8 bits length, Nonsense. ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is 7 bits, as it is defined in ISO-646. > I remind you that Every Coutry has a Charset for ASCII Every script system[1] has an 8 bit set, as defined in ISO-8895. These are extended from ASCII, but are not part of ASCII themselves. [1] you in France use the same ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 (same as -1, but with Euro symbol added) that all other western european countries use. > And only the 127 first chars are American ! Actually they are alphabetical. Used also outside of the USA. > Now ASCII is 256 chars : the last 128 chars are coutry dependent. Script dependant. And not ASCII, and so not acceptable in ascii-art. Ascii.art is _defined_ as using the ASCII subset of all the other systems (ISO-8895 and a few others, like the ISO-2022-JP that KAMUI used, or Unicode, or ISO-10646), for exactly the reason, that ASCII will display everywhere. ISO-2022-JP does not display outside of Japanese systems, and so is definitely totally off-topic here. And KAMUI is a repeat offender at not accepting being critisized for this. > Hope this helps.. Not really, as it is wrong. > Dans l'article <g74...@4ax.com>, "drsquare" > <now...@nowhere.co.uk> a �crit : > > >> > > Japanese character set? I thought this group was called alt.ASCII-art And BTW: on Usenet, one _follows_ the original posters stuff with ones additions. The original stuff is included to recall in the reader mind the thread one is extending. That should be done before adding new stuff, on planets wherte time runs past to futire.. So it should be read before, to fullfill its purpose. That requires it to be on top, at least with scripts that are read top to bottom. At least you did not quote the entire post. -- Neil Franklin, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery
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