From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: obsolete ascii? (for language lawyers)
Date: 1999/06/29
Date: 1999-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7lbf37$skd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7lb7ri$2g2@hobbes.crc.com
In article <7lb7ri$2g2@hobbes.crc.com>,
"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Hermann wrote in message
> <7las7v$5p0$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>...
> >Why then (zum Kuckuck!) is package ascii declared obsolete?
>
> Because a package like Ada.Characters.Latin_1 replaces it, and
> extends the range to include 256 characters instead of 128.
Also, ASCII is an obsolete American standard, while Latin_1 is an
international standard that fits into the "Unicode" universal
character standard.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-29 0:00 obsolete ascii? (for language lawyers) Peter Hermann
1999-06-29 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-06-29 0:00 ` John Herro
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-08 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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