Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 09/04/05 13:26

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, TheWebJunkie@webtv.net wrote:

> Alan commented:
> >Mostly, this terminology "extended ASCII" seems
> >to be used by people who are referring to an old
> >MS-DOS code, more accurately known as CP-437 ...
>
> I was referring to the upper half of ISO 8859-1. The original poster
> mentioned the "Registered Trademark" symbol, which is a capital R within
> a circle. I mentioned that it is represented by hexadecimal value "ae"
> (decimal value 174), to which Alan commented:
> > "......but you seem to have a different one in mind."
>
> Well, which symbol do *you* think John was referring to?

That's an amusing side-swerve to the thread. FWIW, I thought it likely
that you might be referring to Windows-1252, but I preferred to give you
the opportunity to respond first.

Of course, both iso-8859-1 (which you now say you intended), and
Windows-1252, have quite different character assignments in their upper
half than any of the old MS-DOS codings, particularly the CP-437 coding
which (IME) is what most of those folk who refer to "extended ASCII" are
talking about.

And this isn't just me: do a web search and you'll find that the phrase
"extended ASCII" is overwhelmingly described as an MS-DOS character
coding. For example, out of the first 6 hits at Google, the only one
which wasn't evidently about MS-DOS encoding was RFC698, which is
something completely different.

Still, if you don't mind being misunderstood, just carry on the
way you are.

> What the hell are you talking about?

Hmmm.

have fun.

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