idle6.0 german umlauts (ascii >128 Exception)

Nick Bensema nickb at fnord.io.com
Sun Nov 19 13:23:59 EST 2000


In article <4kpd0t8lpk6g37qrqg5tejqh6l82c086dq at 4ax.com>,
Steve Horne  <sh at ttsoftware.co.uk> wrote:
>Characters with umlauts are not defined in the ASCII character set.
>You were probably getting away with something before that you
>shouldn't have been - though to be honest, use of the unicode
>character set rather than ASCII would be better these days.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that still Idle's problem?

In fact, if I'm not mistaken, characters 128 through 255 of Unicode
conform exactly to the high ASCII in common use today.

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