RE: Chapter on character sets

[brendan_murray]

Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ("US-ASCII" vs ISO 646-US and ANSI X3.4 for example).
"US-ASCII" is the same as ANSI X3.4 which is the same as ISO 646-IRV
(International Reference Version) which is the same as the US national
variant of ISO-646. In other words, 0x23 = '#' and 0x24 = '$'.

An historical note: the national variants of ISO-646 replaced these two
characters as well as the positions occupied by '~', '^', '{', '|', '}', '
[', '\' and ']' which made for interesting C programs :-)

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