Re: System/8X: Question about ASCII strings
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"Riley McArdle" <mechsys@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I am programming the strings and string manipulation daemons for System/8X
>right now and wanted to get some of you programmers' opinions. I am trying
>to decide if I should use the standard ASCII character set, or make my own
>for System/8x. If I made my own, it would take up slightly less memory, but
>if I use the standard ASCII, it will be more compatible with computers. I
>also could just make a little program to convert to/from ASCII from/to
>System/8X strings. What are your thoughts?
>
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>
>--
ASCII. There are ways to store/code characters wich are no part of standard
ASCII in ASCII. For example vowels with two dots above (Finnish, German,
Hungarian ...). If you change to not-ASCII it's necessary to define new coding
conventions for such characters. To be compatible, I would vote for ASCII.
Cheers,
Gunter
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