Re: CONLANG: ASCII and ye shall receive!

[KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE]

Eddy skribas:

>I found--without much trouble at all, I might add--the "ASCII Extended 
>Characters (128-255)" list in a manual for WordPerfect.  So there _are_ 
>places were it is booked.  I see that at least nine others have been found. 
>Call them what you want; the ASCII number is still 129.

Unfortunately, commercial vendors have created a lot of *desinformation* 
about ASCII. ASCII is at last standardised, and there are now 7-bit ASCII 
(what you all know) and 8 bit ASCII which is identical to ISO-Latin-1. 
Everything else is *not ASCII*. 

--J"org Knappen.