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Re: Gag me with a blunt …



HUGHES,MARK (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1) scripsit:

>   If IBM's EBCDIC-to-Unicode translation is broken[0], 

It isn't.

> [0] Yes, there's a Unicode character there that matches theirs, but one
> presumes it was added at their instigation, rather than map to CR and
> LF...

One presumes incorrectly.

The character comes from an ISO standard, and ultimately from the DEC
MCS implemented on VT terminals.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter