Re: standard keyboard character?

Thomas A. Russ wrote:

Mark Tarver <dr.mtarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Is ¬ a standard keyboard character? I ask because I have £ on my
keyboard which is not common to many keyboards.

I would say not.


It's definitely a standard printed-on-the-keytop keyboard character on
standard _british_ keyboards (and perhaps others, see wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout ), just a lot of
people have keyboards of some other standard...

While it's not in 7-bit ASCII, it is a fairly highly conserved
high character in 8-bit charsets, often at point 172 (or 170 in old
microsoft codepages), as it is in unicode (but utf-8 is not single-byte
for the 8-bit high chars, as you found...)



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