Rustom Mody writes: > On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 4:18:02 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: ... >> 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> ... > 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
There may be a small inaccuracy at the point where you refer to Latin[1-15]. There are 15 parts to ISO-8859, numbered from 1 to 16 (with part 12 abandoned), but their numbers are not in synch with the Latin-N nicknames. In particular, Latin-9 is 8859-15, while 8859-9 is Latin-5. Some of the 8859-N are not Latin-anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859 This important detail should fit well in your narrative :) (Regarding Marko's 7-bit example, some terminals gave us a choice: they could be toggled to show those certain codes as {[\|]} or as letters, it was just not possible to see both at the same time.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
