On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:

> Octal! I've not used that for 30 years,
And I'm only 24 years old...

> I would never have considered it in a PC environment.
It reveals the background of the ABC language, I
guess...

> ... but maybe 243 was not a typo: it's the Latin-1 coding (decimal 163)
> for £.

Now I double checked it, and you are correct! It should
be octal codes according to the specified charset,
which by default is Latin-1....


 Groeten,
 Irwin Oppenheim
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