Re: ASCII as a subset of Unicode

From: Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Apr 12 2009 - 16:33:30 CDT

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On 2009-04-12 10:47, Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
> Before ASCII, the norm was to use 6 bit codes for textual data, i.e. no
> lower case.

"fond" memories of CDC Cyber NOS, ^w^h^i^c^h ^u^s^e^d ^t^w^o ^b^y^t^e^s
^f^o^r ^l^o^w^e^r ^c^a^s^e.

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