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Re: gpic and 8-bit characters (was: Proposed GNU troff behavior change:


From: Tadziu Hoffmann
Subject: Re: gpic and 8-bit characters (was: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 10:51:50 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13)

> > So because both being above ASCII (8 bit area),

> ASCII is not an 8-bit code.  It is a 7-bit code, [...]

Latin-1 is a superset of ASCII, with ASCII occupying the lower
half, so technically I would argue that the above statement
"being above ASCII" (namely, being in the area where the
eighth bit is set) is correct.  :-)





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