In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Hill
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After a week away I'm reading the draft 2.0.0.
Doubtless I will have other comments which I will make but simply the
special characters:
(a) I presume the list is not exhaustive. ie É (Capital E acute) and the
like
(b) I think
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
(a) I presume the list is not exhaustive. ie É (Capital E acute) and the
The table only gives a number of examples for each
class of supported accents.
(b) I think we need a copyright symbol. \C or \OC.
The second revision of the 2.0 draft (soon to be
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
(a) I presume the list is not exhaustive. ie É (Capital E acute) and the
The table only gives a number of examples for each
class of supported accents.
(b) I think we need a copyright
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
Bernard Hill wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim
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Watch out: 156 is decimal, while the number behind the
backslash should be the octal code of the character,
which is 234 (and _not_ 243, which was a typo!)
Octal! I've not used that for 30 years, I would
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:53:41PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote:
Bernard Hill wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Watch out: 156 is decimal, while the number behind the
backslash should be the octal code of the character,
which is 234 (and _not_ 243,
I. Oppenheim writes:
|
| (c) Why is £ \243? While I can of course implement it, it makes no
| sense. Ascii £ is 156.
|
From the iso_8859-1 man page:
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
...
243 163 A3 £ POUND SIGN
...
251 169 A9 © COPYRIGHT SIGN
