From: brahms AT mindspring DOT com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION!
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:43:20 -0400
Organization: Oak Road Systems
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aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi (aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi) wrote in 
comp.os.msdos.programmer:
>Well, I'm using a Finnish/Swedish keyboard and I've been using Swedish
>letters AND curly braces without a problem for a long time.  I've used
>CP437, CP850 ("official" Swedish CP, but I prefer 437) and ISO-8859-1.
>
>Maybe Stroustrup is referring to older, non-PC systems, using a modified
>ASCII charset and 7-bit to represent characters?

Very possibly. The trigraphs were standardized in the late 1980s.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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