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 Wes Leatherock wrote in a message to Day Brown:
WL>        "High ASCII" is a misnomer.  There is no standard for
WL> anything above character 127.  Neither is there an ISO standard.
 In my 'high ASCII' language there is a sentence which loosely
 translates as "do not throw shit upwards if you do not want
 it to fall on your head"....
 There _IS_ ISO 8859 standard.
 There _IS_ a standard codepage 1251. There _IS_ a standard
 codepage 866. There _ARE_ some more standard codepages for
 'non-english' languages...
WL>        That's the principal reason "high ASCII" is prohibited in
WL> Fidonet echoes, since different computers and different programs
WL> will display those characters differently.
 So what? If you have the right code page installed, what is
 the problem?
WL> Your description of what happens with characters above 127
WL> describes what is displayed on monitors that follow the
WL> original IBM PC character set.  But many monitors display
WL> different characters, and many programs have different
WL> implementations of characters above 127 even on monitors
WL> using the IBM set.
 Buddy, the 'character set' has nothing to do with the
 monitors. With 'terminals', yes, but the monitors are from
 a different opera...
Anri
--- lamers' team member (c)
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