Scott Lurndal wrote:

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

ASCII has both 7 and 8 bit level codes. 7 is common on teletypes, while 8
is controlling other functions typically on electronic equipment.

There is 5 & 6 level codes - Baudot and Trascii. 6 level code was needed for
some bit slice machines. Only the 6 level (of the two) has ASCII roots.

Martin [ has used all four ]

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