Re: New to the list...

Keith Moore writes:

> > When people say "8bit", do they mean 1-255 or 0-255?
> "8bit" generally means using all of the printable characters from an
> 8-bit character set, say iso-8859-1.  It doesn't necessarily mean that
> all of the control characters are preserved, or that long lines will
> survive intact, etc.
Most of the control characters are expected also to be passed thru.
There may be problems with the NUL character and the <cr><lf> sequence.

Keld