On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 4:18:02 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Christopher Reimer: > > > 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?
Thanks to this (sub)thread Ive added a new section: "Lemma: 7=8" here http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html All contributors gratefully acknowledged! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
