Newbie question about text encoding

[Marcos Almeida Azevedo]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Laura Creighton wrote:
>
> > Dave Angel
> > are you another Native English speaker living in a world where ASCII
> > is enough?
>
> ASCII was never enough. Not even for Americans, who couldn't write things
> like "I bought a comic book for 10¢ yesterday", let alone interesting
> things from maths and science.
>
>
ASCII was a necessity back then because RAM and storage are too small.


> I missed the whole 7-bit ASCII period, my first computer (Mac 128K) already
> had an extended character set beyond ASCII. But even that never covered the
>

I miss the days when I was coding with my XT computer (640kb RAM) too.
Things were so simple back then.


> full range of characters I wanted to write, and then there was the horrible
> mess that you got whenever you copied text files from a Mac to a DOS or
> Windows PC or visa versa. Yes, even in 1984 we were transferring files and
> running into encoding issues.
>
>
>
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