Thomas Thurman on Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:16:16 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] OT: Perl question


On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:14:44PM -0400, Stephen Brown wrote:
> > Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > >Any ideas what character \xA0 might be?
> > It is something non-ascii
> 
> It is too ASCII, it's just 8-bit clean ASCII.

Isn't ASCII a 7-bit code? There are all sorts of ISO- and ANSI- defined
things (to say nothing of OEM-specific stuff) which define the space
between 128 and 255, but the 1968 ASCII standard was definitely 7-bit
only.

T

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