Subj : The seven-bit restriction
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:02

 KvE> Just out of curiosity, what is high-ASCII ?

   Usually known as the ASCII characters higher than 0x7f.

 KvE> Because there is no consensus on what is to be represented by these so
 KvE> called high-ASCII.

   No need to. Every region (outside of Z1 and Z3) -- meaning parts of the 
world using completely different languages -- takes care of it's own. The rest 
can simply either ignore it or take the recent technical developments and 
handle it accordingly.

 BF>> many years now, and I'm still just Bj?rn in the nodelist there... :(

 KvE> It is not the magic on how it is to be done.

   No magic needed. My 15yo Y2K patch can handle it.

 KvE> The option for the control file to enable 8 bit characters is Allow8Bit 
and
 KvE> should then be set to "1".

   Maybe you haven't have time to read my recent comments yet? What I'm asking 
is, why this option is even needed. And if it is, why is the default to have it 
disabled and not vice versa?

 KvE> you have written there is no single way to write Bj?rn.

   But there is! *I* write it the way I want it. In my Region20 file it's 
written the way I want it. That's simply the way *I* want it. Freedom of 
expression, anyone...?

 KvE> But I am still curious, what definition of high-ASCII will be used?

   None at all. If we regard the nodelist as the simple, binary file that it 
was intended to be from the very beginning, we can put whatever characters that 
we want in there.

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