At 9:53 AM -0500 11/24/03, Adam Smith wrote:
ASCII is only defined of 0 through 127.
But that's not the whole story. There is also something called
"Extended ASCII", which (under Windows) does include a copyright
symbol.
No, actually, there isn't. Or rather, there are dozens and dozens of
"extended ASCII" sets. Windows-Latin-1 certainly is one; MacRoman is
another. Both of these contain a copyright symbol, but they have
them at different code points. It's a mess.
That's why Unicode is such a great idea -- instead of dozens of
different character sets for different uses, let's have just *one*
big character set that the whole world can agree on.
Eventually, I believe all other character sets will become nothing
but historical footnotes. But unfortunately right now we're in the
transition period, and there is still a lot of that older stuff lying
around in our files and in our brains!
Cheers,
- Joe
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