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From: acli@acli.interlog.com (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Character sets (was: A.D.)
Organization: somewhere in Scarborough, Canada running C News CR.E and some assorted hacks for NNTP (including a hacked nntpxmit derived from NNTP 1.5.12)
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 23:57:39 GMT
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:41:17 GMT, in article <E7EJoA.8HE@nonexistent.com>, John Cowan  <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
>What he calls "the windows 3 version" is properly called "code page
>1252",
>and is a superset of ISO 8859-1.  The codes 80-9F, not assigned in
>8859-1, are assigned to a variety of useful characters:

In case someone wonders why the "useful characters" are "left out"
in ISO-8859-1, that's because the range 0x80 to 0x9f is *reserved
for control characters*.

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