[moving this back to the thread where it belongs]
On 1/2/24, hoh...@posteo.de wrote:
> If gpic gets Ä (0xc3 0x84) it complains about 0x84.
> If gpic gets ä (0xc3 0xa4) it does not complain about 0xa4.
True, but irrelevant, because *in neither case will the character be
interpreted the way you in
Quoth hoh...@posteo.de:
If gpic gets Ä (0xc3 0x84) it complains about 0x84.
If gpic gets ä (0xc3 0xa4) it does not complain about 0xa4.
gpic says: "invalid input character".
So because both being above ASCII (8 bit area), what makes 0x84 wrong?
It seems that 0x84 is located in a control area w
Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
So because both being above ASCII (8 bit area),
I'm going to stop you right there. ASCII is not an 8-bit code. It is a
7-bit code, per USAS (later ANSI) X3.4-1968 and ECMA-6.
https://ia800800.us.archive.org/35/items/enf-ascii-1968-1970/Image070917151315.pdf
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> > So because both being above ASCII (8 bit area),
> ASCII is not an 8-bit code. It is a 7-bit code, [...]
Latin-1 is a superset of ASCII, with ASCII occupying the lower
half, so technically I would argue that the above statement
"being above ASCII" (namely, being in the area where the
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