On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:45:03PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2007, at 15:11 , Stefan O'Rear wrote: > >> There is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII - base assumes files contain >> ISO-8859-1. > > Hm, shouldn't it really be ISO-8859-15? (The difference being that -1 > predates the euro symbol.)
Base assumes that bytes 0-255 correspond to Unicode codepoints 0-255; according to gucharmap, the Euro sign is 0x20AC. << € >> U+20AC EURO SIGN Stefan
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