Steve Smith wrote: <begin extract> The main difference among the various flavors of EBCDIC is where the square brackets are. The rest is mostly accented letters. </end extract>
and I have two comments. The first is that where the square brackets, '[' and ']', are is not so important as their presence of absence. Writing C source programs without them is problematic, but one can always arrange for the translation of their code points. The second is that 'accented letters' are much more important to, say, francophones than they are to anglophones. English is unique in making little use of 'accented letters', but an inference from this peculiarity to the notion that they are generically unimportant is at once provincial and wrong. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
