[TxMt] invisibles bundle update; stupefy quotes/hyphens and zap non-ASCII added

[Eric Hsu]

At 9:50 PM +0100 1/20/05, Sune Foldager wrote:
>>On 20. jan 2005, at 18:57, Eric Hsu wrote:
>>At 10:47 AM +0100 1/20/05, Ralph Pöllath wrote:
>>>>You may want to refer to an ASCII chart (just google it).
>>>
>>>Or type "man ascii" into Terminal.app (without the quotes, of course).
>>Wow, I didn't know that was there!  However, 
>>the man page is American-centric and stops at 
>>x7F. The accented letters live in the lower 
>>part of x80-xFF.
>
>Yes, but ASCII is a 7-bit code, hence only 
>contains characters 0x00-0x7F. Common 8-bit 
>codes are ISO-8859-1 and Mac Roman etc. ... so I 
>guess it's just a matter of terms, sorry for me 
>being pedantic here

You are completely correct.  If one can't be 
pedantic in computer science, where can one? :)

The original sentence meant to convey the idea 
that some people don't like having accented 
characters treated as gremlins. In order to avoid 
that, they can look at the 8-bit extensions to 
ASCII and take their favorite characters and 
adapt Zap non-ASCII preserve them.

For this purpose "man ascii" isn't helpful, and 
they'll need either to roll their own chart for 
their favorite encoding or google one.

best, Eric
-- 
Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
erichsu at math.sfsu.edu
http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu