On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 14:30, Jonathan Scott <jonathan_sc...@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Ze'ev Atlas wrote: > > The real question is why, but really why, IBM had to introduce > > this EBCDIC horror, where symbols like [,], ^ and some less > > signifacant ones moved around dry leaves in the fall wind. > > > That's a bit off-topic, but the answer is "Compatibility". > [...] > ASCII systems were dominated by the use of personal computers > which outside the USA mostly ended up using IBM's code page 850 > then moving to a mapping originally known as ECMA-94 which > eventually evolved into ISO 8859-1, similar to the commonest > Windows code page, which became the first 256 bytes of Unicode. > First 256 *characters*, I think. And the first 128 of which are also the first 128 *bytes* of UTF-8. Tony H.
