Ove Kaaven,
> > >
> >       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.
>
        OOPS.  Sorry about that.  It's old data I never use and it's degrading....
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