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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2022 9:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-09-01, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2022-09-01 kl. 21:06, skrev Johnny Billquist:
>>> On 2022-09-01 20:04, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> How do the Nordic special characters get represented in the 7-bit
>>>> character sets anyway or do they use 8-bits for some of the characters ?
>>
>> Just read up a little.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Replacement_Character_Set
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Professionally, I've grown up with 8-bit character sets and then, later,
> UTF-8, so seeing this earlier standard looks really weird and alien to me.
> 
> Having jogged my memory, about the only thing I can remember from my early
> professional days was having to talk to some old (old at the time, not now)
> printers by sending them '#' for the pound sign, but that was to do with
> how you talked to the (old) printer.
> 
> The idea that the same 7-bit character position can mean different
> things in adjacent countries (such as Norway and Sweden) is indeed a
> very alien idea to me and that would mean a company operating in both
> countries would have some serious data interchange issues.
> 
>> Jonny is of course completely right here.
>> Simon is lacking knowledge the Nordic ASCII 7-bit chat sets.
> 
> You are quite right Jan-Erik. I'm used to the 8-bit way of thinking
> and this is a very different mindset.

What about CDC Display code?

:-)

Hint: 6 bit! (well 6 or 6/12 bit)

Arne