RE: [PLUG] ASCII encoding question...

["William H. Magill" <magill@isc.upenn.edu>]

>   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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