Chris Searles (csearles_at_netcologne.de) wrote:
> But aren't characters such as French accents within the 7-bit ASCII
> range=3F (Or, in other words, how far does the 7-bit ASCII range exten=
d=3F)
The ASCII standard comprises 32 control codes plus !"#$%&'()*+,-./
0123456789:;<=3D>=3F_at_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST
UVWXYZ[\]^=5F`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~.
In other words, the french accents as such are there, but not the
accented characters. That's fine if you are using a typewriter where
typing, for example, "=B4" and "a" will produce an accented character, b=
ut
on a computer, you need the actual glyph for that character which is
outside the (7-bit) ASCII range. The "A" in "ASCII" is for "American",
and for a reason: there are just two languages that can be written using=
ASCII encoding: English and Latin.
- Michael
Michael J. Hussmann
E-mail: michael_at_michael-hussmann.de
WWW: http://michael-hussmann.de
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