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RE: [PLUG] ASCII encoding question...
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what i have since discovered is that the hosting machine has
locale="en_US.UTF-8" and the staging machine is encoded locale="C".
apparently locale="C" is only 7bit.
-----Original Message-----
From: William H. Magill
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org; wshank@mbcnet.com
Sent: 11/1/01 3:24 PM
Subject: RE: [PLUG] ASCII encoding question...
> it looks like the vi editor on the host machine doesn't recognize
extended
> ascii - because when i scp the file back (the one that looks to have
been
> converted) my local editors show the extended characters.
That's because ASCII is a standard and is a 7-bit code. Hence that's
what
unix an vi or emacs support.
There is no such thing as "extended ASCII" from a standards point of
view... unless your definition of standard is - whatever Microsoft does.
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