[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4c5af098$0$32458$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
> > Why?
> > It's an english NG and AFAIK English can be encoded completely
> > in 7 bit ASCII.
> 
> 
> While the rest of the world may say 20°, in the USA, despite it being
> english, they will say 68°.  Still needs a charactere whose value is
> higher than 127.

Your 8-bit degree sign is visible to me as such without any QP.