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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2022 2:00 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-09-02, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 9/2/2022 9:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> ISO-8859 has the same basic issue. Multiple meanings of same
>> code - not per country like for ISO-646 but per region.
>>
> 
> That's a good point. OTOH, during all the time I have needed 8-bit
> characters, I have never had to switch away from ISO-8859-1 so far
> and from what I can tell, the several ISO-8859 variants I have just
> looked at (1/2/4/9/10) appear to have common characters before 0x80.

Yes - that is still good old ASCII.

Arne