On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, admiral coeyman wrote:
> Joerg Mayer,
>
> > > Print full ansi char set (from 32 to 255), not only from 32 to 126,
> > > print other values in hex.
> >
> > Umm, would that print the characters from 128 to 128+31 too? If so,
> > I don't think that should be done.
> >
> Actually, there are no ansi characters above 128. (I think the highest real
> ansi character is 127.) Ansi is a 7-bit (0->127) code. Codes outside of that
> are extensions to the standard and not always the same.
That is wrong. ASCII defines characters 0-127, while ANSI is MS' version
of ISO Latin-1 (8859-1). But ISO Latin-1 does not define the characters
codes between 128 and 160 (128+32), I think they're considered something
like "control characters with parity bit", so are reserved in much the
same way as the real control characters between 0 and 32.
