Tom Quackenbush writes:
Tom Quackenbush wrote:
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As an aside, is there a UNIX/WENIX/Linux standard for 8-bit ASCII?

WENIX = XENIX.

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is by definition
7-bit.

The typical 8-bit character set on linux is ISO-8859-1 (Latin) which is
based on 7-bit ASCII + a number of western european characters.

Older unix may support 8-bit ascii, but the upper 128 bytes are not
standardized between vendors.

scott