Re: History of character codes

2002-11-04 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:49:46PM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote: > Be very, very skeptical of anything you read in the TRON article. It is heavily >biased against Unicode and anything perceived as American in origin, and makes some >false and misleading statements about Unicode. For example, it stat

Re: History of character codes

2002-03-02 Thread Doug Ewell
ndows-1252.   Unfortunately, I don't know of a web site that covers the entire history of character codes.  Roman Czyborra's site is one of the best, as you have discovered.  Jukka Korpela has a good page at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html, but there is not much mention of anything pre-ASCII.

History of character codes

2002-03-01 Thread Deborah W. Anderson
Does anyone have a recommendation on a website or book that adequately covers the history of character codes, other than the TRON site at http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html? Is there anything available that goes through the early period up through and including Unicode? (I