[DIS] project21 make money

"Dennis Ritchie" <dm...@bell-labs.com> wrote on Fri, 21 Feb 2003:
> "eric fischer" <eri...@ellibrocorto.com> wrote
> a long message about the development of ASCII,
> for which he's due thanks.  It began
>
>> Whether ASCII or ISO 646 came first depends upon the perspective
>> you're looking at it from ...
>
> He concluded,
>
>> I don't know what could really have been done to make it any
>> better, though.  94 printing characters just aren't enough to
>> give everybody everything they want, so in a set of that size,
>> any characters outside the core few that everyone agrees are
>> needed either can't be included at all or have to be assigned
>> with the knowledge that they won't be available everywhere.

The ASCII escape sequences were invented by Bob Bemer of Texas,

http://www.bobbemer.com/ -- Bob Bemer's Homepage; see also

Robert William Bemer -- "Father of ASCII" bio at
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/bemer_bob.htm 

>
> As he and I noted, the basic problem is the pigeon-hole
> principle for 7-bit characters.  Despite ISO 10646 and earlier
> partial solutions like the Latin-x encodings (for various x),
> as well as HTML escape sequences, it's still a difficult
> area.
>
>    Dennis

Arthur
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