Re: ASCII

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 30 Mar 1999, in message <Pine LNX 4 04 9903291522080 15117-100000 LabServer sg umuc edu>
  Vladimir Filev <list LabServer sg umuc edu> wrote:
| does anyone know how I can use ASCII symbols (above 127) under Linux?

<PEDANT>
There are no ASCII codes over 127. It is a 7 bit codeset.
</PEDANT>

Chars are generally bytes in Linux. You need a font which has encodings
for the bytes over 127. Any ISO-Latin-1 font will serve well for
European languages.

As far as typing the extra characters, I can't help you there.
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