Exended ASCII and code pages [was Re: for / while else doesn't make sense]

[Erik]

On 25/05/16 11:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2016 19:10, Christopher Reimer wrote:
>
>> Back in the early 1980's, I grew up on 8-bit processors and latin-1 was all
>> we had for ASCII.
>
> It really, truly wasn't. But you can be forgiven for not knowing that, since
> until the rise of the public Internet most people weren't exposed to more than
> one code page or encoding, and it was incredibly common for people to call
> *any* encoding "ASCII".

Indeed - at that time, I was working with COBOL on an IBM S/370. On that 
system, we used EBCDIC ASCII. That was the wierdest ASCII of all <ducks> ;)

E.