[Expat-discuss] Extended ascii

[Josh Martin]

Heh, and all these years I thought the line drawing characters were part of the 
ASCII character set. And yet I still knew that terminal programs could transmit 
ASCII characters in 7-bit chunks. Well now I'm just a little confused.

 - Josh Martin
  
> *reordering poorly-ordered quoting ...*
> 
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:53:03PM -0600, Josh Martin wrote:
> > > Can someone provide me with example code to process extended ascii along 
with 
> > > example xml files and code....
> >
> > By extended ascii do you mean the normal ascii 256 character set, or are you 
> > talking about Unicode, or what?
> 
> ASCII is a 7-bit character set, not an 8-bit set.  Depending on your world,
> "extended ascii" might be referring to Windows codepage 437 (old DOS
> linedrawing characters) or ISO-8859-1 (Latin1), but it's incorrect to
> call either of those "ASCII" or "extended ASCII".  (I doubt he's looking
> to use line-drawing characters in XML.)
> 
> Of course, all he needs to do is change the encoding in his XML files.
> <?xml ... encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> 
> -- 
> Glenn Maynard
> 
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