Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The codes for the characters you send are the same, they are just
>> INTERPRETED differently.
>> (charset in MIME header tells us how you did interpret these
>> characters, so we know what you wanted to type, but you tell us that
>> you used US-ASCII which does _NOT_ contain high ASCII characters)
SH> All I know is that there are 256 characters in the standard ascii
SH> chart.
NO!! ASCII are only the first 128 characters !!!!
SH> Chacters are numbered zero thru 255.
Yes (on most systems) but only the first 128 characters (7 bits) are
standardized. The rest can be anything.
(latin-1,latin-2, latin-x, russian,CP850, CP437 ....)
SH> I don't know if there is a difference between US ascii and standard
SH> ascii.
No ... both are 7 bit
(128 characters)
SH> It is my understanding that the "higher" ascii characters are those
SH> that fall in the range between 128 and 255.
Exactly, and this range is NOT part of the ASCII standard !
SH> It is universally agreed that if the members of the chorus cannot
SH> agree on which key to sing their tune, then the whole performance
SH> will sound positively awful.
But it is a matter of fact that this chorus CAN'T sing in tune ...
I don't see you're problem ...
If you use correct programs (recognize and use charset header) than you
will not have any problems ...
It is not possible to use one 8 bit codepage for all languages, Unicode IS
a solution, but it is very cumbersome to implement it, and eg not possible
on DOS.
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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