Re: A basic question on encoding Latin characters

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 10:40:34 EDT


Edward Cherlin scripsit:

> >Assume you have a hardcopy terminal with a print wheel.
>
> [snip]
>
> ROTFLOL. A Unicode protocol on a daisywheel terminal? You can't even
> upgrade to a dot-matrix printer?

As the old Xerox Character Code Standard manual said: "The key to
large character sets on printwheels is *creative improvisation*."

(Or something like that).

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin



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