Yep. EBCDIC came from Hollerith punch cards, ASCII came from telegraphs. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:31:54 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >>His points, and the points in the serious article he links to, have merit. >> > There are several links in the article, but probably: > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html > > Which says: > ... > You probably think I'm going to talk about very old character sets like > EBCDIC > here. Well, I won't. EBCDIC is not relevant to your life. We don't have > to go > that far back in time. > > Back in the semi-olden days, when Unix was being invented and K&R were > writing The C Programming Language, everything was very simple. EBCDIC > was on its way out. > ... > Alas, that's merely wishful thinking. It's decates past K&R, and we're > still afflicted with EBCDIC. > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: John McKown >>Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 5:25 AM >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/verity_stob_unicode/ > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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