From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Nov 26 11:14:35 1997
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 26 Nov 1997 12:14:35 +0100
Subject: R-alpha:  Latin-1 characters (3)
In-Reply-To: Martin Maechler's message of Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:47:19 +0100
References: <199711261047.LAA00657@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <x2vhxfgb50.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> are you serious,  including  160 =3D octal 240 ?
> Would you want legal syntax such as
>=20
> =09=B1=B4=B4 <- 1:3

Maybe use the circled c (=A9) as a variable containing the GNU Copyleft
message? ;)

But how about =B5l.H2O ?

Question is, would it harm anything (except legibility)? And in a
slightly longer run, what about other ISO character sets (e.g. Latin2,
used in Slavic parts of Eastern Europe and Cyrillic). Do they have
punctuation in the same places? As long as there's no technical reason
to forbid it, why not allow it? I don't suppose we plan to use any of
the characters as syntax elements, do we? (And why am I speaking in
questions today?)

>=20
> Here is an excerpt of a file I wrote a few years ago:
>=20
> All-L1> Note that \240 is VERY funny "invisible",=20
> All-L1> makes things reversevideo/invisible/!@#!  depending on Emacs v=
ersion.
> All-L1> For this reason, I  OMIT it in the following [Enter it with ^Q=
240]:

This is curious. It's supposed to represent non-breakable space --
which might actually make it a rather useful item.

> Given this table, I'd say  192-255 [dec] =3D 300-377 [okt],
> maybe excluding   =D7 and =F7 ..


>     >> ------------------------
>     >> R & R, any comments?
>     >> ------------------------
>=20
> (when you get up to a new day.. find all these funny symbols in your
>  mail box ..)

<grin>

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R-alpha: Latin-1 characters (3)
Peter Dalgaard BSA