On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 03:15:29 +0200, Liviu Daia
<Liviu(_dot_)Daia(_at_)imar(_dot_)ro>
wrote:
FWIW, the encoding used by default on Windows is a slightly
modified iso-8859-1, and, for historical reasons, characters 128..159
have always been unprintable in all iso-8859 encodings. But even in
the (bad) old days of MS-DOS, people in France used cp850, not cp437,
mainly because it had uppercase accented letters.
I remember highbit line-drawing characters in CP487 being used to
generate CUA87-compliant drop-down menus. It was quite popular for
that use in English North America.
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