Message no. 1

From:	Gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject:	Character sets (was Re: Diff's between Shadowrunners and
Date:	Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:17:27 +0200

According to Lone Eagle, on Wed, 09 Oct 2002 the word on the street was...

> As far as I knew I was using standard ASCII characters, I have to confess
> only minimal knowledge of ISO-8859... It comes through on hotmail ok.

Anything above character number 127 is not ASCII, and ISO-8859 leaves
numbers 128-159 (I think) empty, starting again at 160 with a non-breaking
space. Microsoft has basically taken the 8859 specs and added more stuff in
that 128-159 gap to create the Windows character set. As a result, on my
computer running X Windows as a GUI, I only get question marks or blanks
for those characters.

> BTW "?" is Alt+0153.

Yes, I see :)

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