Re: ASCII vs. MacRoman (was Re: Standard Additions 'read' command - basic questions)
Re: ASCII vs. MacRoman (was Re: Standard Additions 'read' command - basic questions)
- Subject: Re: ASCII vs. MacRoman (was Re: Standard Additions 'read' command - basic questions)
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:00:30 -0700
At 18:25 -0800 1/19/04, John W. Baxter wrote:
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When they couldn't have that (they had zero backers among the committee,
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after discussion) they took their ball home and inflicted EBCDIC on a
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generation of programmers
That's so accurate that it makes me sick.
At that time 7 track tape was the norm and a byte was six bits. The numbers 0 through 9 as characters were in fact the binary equivalents of counting numbers. You could take the character and treat it as a value with impunity. I miss the KISS principle of Control Data Corp. and Mr. Cray.
As of now if one wants to determine the TRUTH in terms of Unicode assignments one goes to the Unicode web site and is immediately confronted with a lawyerly proviso that storage of this or that pdf file on your computer or a local area network (who doesn't have one?) is verboten.
It's hard enough to get the facts from official Apple documentation. Not being allowed to save the facts from the official source is ridiculous.
Check out iconv on your OS neXt box. It seems to have most of the facts available. As GNU software I'm not sure it won't get sued SCO style.
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