Message-ID:	<01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021FBC@emwatent02.meters.com.au>
From:	"da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To:	"'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Text file format .ASC ?
Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:38:15 +1100
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Hi.

Does anyone know how to decypher a text file, with filename
extension ".ASC", which seems to :

1. Use the ASCII character set for characters up to *about*
   96 ($60). That is, includes numerals, punctuation, space,
   CR/LF pairs, but not the lower case characters, etc.

2. Use some other encoding for characters above *about*
   96 ($60). For instance, character 109 ($6D) is either the
   the Roman letter 'u' or the Greek letter "mu", whereas in
   ASCII, this should be the Roman letter 'm' ...

The above clues were obtained from the following fragment :
2C 20 6D 50 43 34 39 34 43 2C 20         , mPC494C, 

I'm sure the file must be in a non-Roman language, but it
does not seem to be a Unicode format, nor does it seem
to be any of the (many) strange encoding schemes I have
found information on via the web (there seem to be many,
many more of these, than I had previously suspected ...).

TIA,
Joe.

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