Re: ZX80 (was: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels))

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 09:12:29 EST

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    On 01/04/2004 05:35, Jon Hanna wrote:

    >Quoting Arcane Jill <arcanejill@ramonsky.com>:
    >
    >
    >
    >>Of course, back in the days of the ZX80 (a device which, by the way, had
    >>its own custom, non-ASCII character set) and its offshoots, there was
    >>indeed a SPACE LETTER - a character which /looked/ like a space, but
    >>/acted/ like a letter,
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Gosh, that brings me back. All those characters that were BASIC keywords
    >compressed into one octet. How could we have neglected to encode such important
    >legacy characters, this unnecessarily complicates round-trip conversion between
    >ZX80s and Unicode.
    >
    >
    >
    Can you draft a quick proposal to add these characters in time to submit
    it today? Otherwise this kind of proposal might have to wait a whole year.

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
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