Mail Archives: opendos/2001/03/07/19:39:16
That's the problem here - all those other text formats I've found
seem to retain the first 128 characters and do strange things
with the upper 128 codes. This one doesn't - it seems to use
just the upper case letters and other characters below about
96 ($60), which to me suggests some non-Roman language,
in which the Roman letters are of secondary importance ...
Joe.
PS. WordStar ... Now there's on old friend !
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Petrie [SMTP:mike AT petrie DOT u-net DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2001 5:28
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: RE: Text file format .ASC ?
>
> Hi,
>
> Shouldn't that go up to 127 before changing anything? - that's where ASCII
> ends anyway.
>
> ----
> Regards
> Mike Petrie
>
> Email: mike AT petrie DOT u-net DOT com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: root AT swan DOT prod DOT itd DOT earthlink DOT net
> >
> > sounds like uuencode - uudecode
> >
> > "da Silva, Joe" wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Webb
> > Come visit at http://wordwonder.com
> >
> >
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