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Subject: Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.
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On Nov 28 13:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Besides, we have not only to map the few
> characters you're talking about, the U+f0XX range is also used to
> map invalid UTF-8 chars.

Oh, and all control characters from 0x01 to 0x1f.

The only feasible alternative to the U+f0XX range would be one of the
U+d[c-f]XX ranges as pointed out by Thomas a couple of days ago, maybe.


Corinna

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