On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 06:49, binaryseti wrote:

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> I have been reading some of the messages icw the char sets an I am now
> not sure if I am making use of the correct char set.
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> I make use of A-Z 0-9 and a few puncuation chars and #32. I don't make
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> I have set my char set to ASCII. I thought ASCII is only one byte? Is
> this correct?

This is correct. Technically, ASCII is a precursor to, and a sub set
of, most of the other character sets available. It is only 7 bits in
length (the high bit is always 0).

Most european languages can be represented in a 1 byte character set,
although not all can be represented in the same 1 byte character set.

ISO-8859-1 is the most common 1 byte alphabet in use currently. It can
represent the bulk of european langauges to the extent that they are
understandable, if not % lexically correct.

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