From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: foreign char
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:01:11 -0500
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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >ASCII only goes up to 0x7F. The A in ASCII stands for American. Americans
> >don't know about accents, at least not back in the days of teletype
> >machines..:(. There are no accented characters in ASCII. Unamerican
> >characters may be represented by multi-byte sequences, hence they are out of
> >range of char, which is one byte long.
>
> But what about iso-8859-1, which OP is probably trying to refer to?
> It uses the negative characters (char)-96 to (char)-1 to store
> precomposed characters that are commonly used in Western writing.

Those 'negative chars' are just the 2's compliment of normal unsigned char's.
So they correspond to char's with the 8th bit set.

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)