Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > > Typically, this 8bit set is called the 'ascii' set. > > Maybe by you; not by the rest of the world. We just live in different worlds. There are a myriad of them. > 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! "The IBM graphics character set" is ten syllables. Most folks in my world are content to get by with 2: ask-key. There is jargon like 'ascii' all over it.
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