[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-09-02 kl. 04:42, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <631149a3$0$702$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
>> First the background info about what this is all about
>> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Good summary.
> 
>> ANSI ASCII ~ ISO-646 ~ ECMA-6 is a character set going back to
>> the mid 60's. It only define 0-127 so it can work with 7 bit
>> comm.
>>
>> 128 character was not enough to cover all western languages,
>> so there were actually multiple mappings defined:
>>
>> ISO-646 for English
>> ISO-646-DK for Danish
>> ISO-646-SE for Swedish
>> etc.
>>
>> The differences was related to only a few characters.
>>
>> Most relevant for Danes and Swedes are:
>>
>>                  0x5B 0x5C 0x5D   0x7B 0x7C 0x7D
>> ISO-646          [    \    ]      {    |    }
>> ISO-646-DK       Æ    Ø    Ã
      Ê    Þ    å
>> ISO-646-SE       Ä    Ö    Ã
      À    ö    å
>>
>> (I hope those 8 byte characters goes through)
> 
> I was going to ask "what 8-byte characters?" since I didn't see any when
> reading your post.  Now, on a VT320 using NEWSRDR,...

Ah! Thanks Phillip! It is always welcome with a Friday-joke! :-)