Quoting Arcane Jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Of course, back in the days of the ZX80 (a device which, by the way, had 
> its own custom, non-ASCII character set) and its offshoots, there was 
> indeed a SPACE LETTER - a character which /looked/ like a space, but 
> /acted/ like a letter,

Gosh, that brings me back. All those characters that were BASIC keywords
compressed into one octet. How could we have neglected to encode such important
legacy characters, this unnecessarily complicates round-trip conversion between
ZX80s and Unicode.

-- 
Jon Hanna
<http://www.hackcraft.net/>
"…it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for
equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt

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