On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:37:56PM -0800, brendan_murray@lotus.com wrote:
>
> Mike Brown <mbrown@corp.webb.net> wrote:
> > ("US-ASCII" vs ISO 646-US and ANSI X3.4 for example).
> "US-ASCII" is the same as ANSI X3.4 which is the same as ISO 646-IRV
> (International Reference Version) which is the same as the US national
> variant of ISO-646. In other words, 0x23 = '#' and 0x24 = '$'.
>
> An historical note: the national variants of ISO-646 replaced these two
> characters as well as the positions occupied by '~', '^', '{', '|', '}', '
> [', '\' and ']' which made for interesting C programs :-)
@ and ` were also allowed unassigned
keld
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