Re: ASCII to EBCDIC problem with CA/400 and FTP

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Booth,

The "AE thingy" is properly known as a digraph; OE is another.  They are often 
incorrectly called diphthongs.  
A digraph is a group of two letters representing a simple sound.  In this form 
where the A and the E are 
printed as  a single character it is also known as a ligature -- usually only 
when typeset, most other 
occurances prefering separate characters.  They are commonly used in words 
derived from Latin or Greek such 
as aeon, Caesar, diarrhoea, encylopaedia, gynaecology, homoeopathy, and Oedipus 
when spelt properly.  They 
are dropping out of favour (mostly due to ignorance of the masses), and 
American spelling has generally 
preferred to replace both AE and OE with E.

Ah, a classical education is terrible thing to waste! :-)

The use of the upper 256 characters of the ASCII character set has long been 
open to interpretation and 
free assignment by whomever wishes to use them.  It's not really a MS invention 
(wow, sounds like I'm 
defending them -- nah, not possible).

A translation table should be able to solve all these inconsistencies when 
transferring data from a PC to a 
real computer.  (Although I note this problem has been solved by telling Word 
to behave properly).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 98 19:55:41 -0500
> From: boothm@ibm.net
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: ASCII to EBCDIC problem with CA/400 and FTP

> 
> This is a Microsoft invention.  the character is the curly quote and is up in 
>the variable section of the 
code page.  By tradition everyone has used the curly quote there, but MS chose 
to use the AE thingy. 
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