X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,53bb6ed8b4ce23b8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-17 10:05:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-feed3!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!amsnews01.chello.com!nlnews00.chello.com.POSTED!tanya. From: ppunk@chello.balls.nl (Donderfliegen) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: [Request] Diamond Organization: Total Disorganisation Message-ID: <5skb4us3egap72s76rj3g3gqkhc5pbjh4g@4ax.com> References: <3C249AC1.F53C03F9@vmg.vil.ee> <20011222094059.05612.00001875@mb-fo.aol.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.0.162 X-Original-Trace: 16 Jan 2002 20:27:00 +0100, 192.168.0.162 Lines: 21 X-Authenticated-User: donderfliegen Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:22:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.93.74.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.nl X-Trace: nlnews00.chello.com 1011208927 213.93.74.225 (Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:22:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:22:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13849 On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:03:55 +0100, =?ISO-8859-15?q?=22Beno=EEt= Rouits" provoked the following text: >In the case if you forgot that ASCII is now 8 bits length, >I remind you that Every Coutry has a Charset for ASCII >And only the 127 first chars are American ! >Now ASCII is 256 chars : the last 128 chars are coutry dependent. >Hope this helps.. You are SO wrong!!! ASCII stands for american Standard Code for Information Interchange. Note the "American" in that sentence. What you described were ISO-charsets. -- __ ___ / ) _/_ _(_ /'_ _ _ /(_/()/)(/(-/ / (/(-(/(-/) _/ Castrate me to reply by e-mail You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time. (Los Angeles, California city law)