• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: "HUGHES,MARK (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <mark_hughes@n...>
• Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:04:41 -0500 (EST)

HUGHES,MARK (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1) scripsit:

>   If IBM's EBCDIC-to-Unicode translation is broken[0], 

It isn't.

> [0] Yes, there's a Unicode character there that matches theirs, but one
> presumes it was added at their instigation, rather than map to CR and
> LF...

One presumes incorrectly.

The character comes from an ISO standard, and ultimately from the DEC
MCS implemented on VT terminals.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@c...
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