Christopher Reimer <christopher_rei...@icloud.com>: > Back in the early 1980's, I grew up on 8-bit processors and latin-1 was > all we had for ASCII.
You really were very advanced. According to <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#History>, ISO 8859-1 was standardized in 1985. "Eight-bit-cleanness" became a thing in the early 1990's. Where I was in late 1980's, the terminals were still 7-bit, and instead of ASCII, national 7-bit character set variants were being used. For example, you might see Pascal code like this: ä return the net å ret := grossÄunitÅ * grossRate <URL: http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/charsets-7bit.html> > Over the last several days from reading this thread (and variations > thereof), l've seen several extended characters that I have no clue on > how to reproduce on my keyboard. I haven't embraced extended character > sets yet, which means I still think of ASCII characters as being 0 > through 255 (8-bit). But Latin-1 is on your fingertips? ¡Qué bueno! Entonces sabes dónde están las teclas españolas, ¿no? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
