tech-userlevel: Re: fmt and high bit characters

Subject: Re: fmt and high bit characters
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/29/2000 10:14:59

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:45:01PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> # e.g., >127 might be right for CP850, but is wrong for iso-8859-$N, at last
> # for N==1.
> 
> Um, I thought 8859-1 was 8-bit ASCII[*], and as such was valid through
> 255.

No, it is not ASCII, it is iso-8859-1.

the range 128-159 contains control characters.

	-is