Re: Backspace?

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2001 - 07:48:08 CST


In <20001230152654.8952.qmail@kairos.algonet.se> sommar@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

>Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk) writes:
>> >> Posters SHOULD avoid using control characters in US-ASCII (or other
>> >> CCSs) except for tab (ASCII 9), formfeed (ASCII 12), and backspace
>> ...
>> I think it is saying you should not use control character in ANY character
>> set (apart from the exceptions mentioned). Which is why it says "or other
>> CCSs".

>But this can be read in two ways. It can be read that you should not use
>control characters in the character set you are currently using. Thus
>if you are using iso-8859-1, the byte 146 may not appear, but it's OK
>if you are using win-1252.

Yes, that is how I would interpret the present wording. I can't really see
how you can read your 2nd interpretation into it.

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