> Typically, this 8bit set is called the 'ascii' set.

Maybe by you; not by the rest of the world.  ASCII is a 7-bit character set,
always has been, always will be.  That's the problem -- no room for
international characters.  Hence Latin-1 (the top 128 characters are pretty
much all accented letters) and Unicode etc.

The IBM character set is more likely to be called, surprisingly, the IBM
graphics character set -- the IBM PCs used it, some IBM compatible printers
did, no-one else.  Epson printers had italic characters in the top half!

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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