Re: Chapter on character sets

[Keld J�rn Simonsen]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:37:56PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)

@ and ` were also allowed unassigned

keld