In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I. Oppenheim wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, David Webber wrote: >> >> >>>I suspect that the only things the abc standard has >>>to worry about, as far as applications on different >>>platforms go, is to do with specification of text >>>fonts >> >> >> The actual font type to be used is a typical issues for >> the stylesheet meta standard. >> >> >>> and definition of (accented etc) characters in text. >> >> >> The ABC standard itself should make it possible to >> specify the code page in which the text inside the ABC >> tune is coded. It is probably safe to assume iso8859-1 >> (Latin-1) as default, if nothing is specified by the >> user. This way the user could also choose e.g. Unicode >> as codepage. > >My feelings on encoding for machine-readable ABC: > >For syntax (e.g., everything that isn't "text", stick to stricty 7-bit >ASCII characters. No accents, no other funny stuff. Just straight >7-bit ASCII.
That's a strictly American view. There are 2 important characters on our keyboards which give 8-bits: pound sign and Euro sign. And I frequently use the accented characters extensions in emails, letters, documents and Music Publisher with no problem whatsoever. Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
