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Randall Hyde

I have not said anything about it invalidating that claim. I find it very strange that you keep acting as if I had. :)

Why, thank you. *bows*

That was not the argument in my posts.

That was not the argument in my posts, either.

My arguments were two-fold, and I can repeat and clarify them here again:

You say: "DOS had ANSI.SYS but never really had anything like the ANSI character set."

Me says: Although IBM Codepage 437 is not an ANSI-standardized character set by itself, it is a backwards-compatible superset of an ANSI-standardized character set (namely, ASCII.)

You say: " never bothered to use systems like Windows, where the ANSI character set gained popularity."

Me says: There are several ANSI-standardized character sets, not just one. What you're probably referring to with "the ANSI character set" is ANSI Latin 1, better known as ISO 8859-1 or ISO Latin 1. That is, however, not what Windows uses (although it's a very common misconception.)

What Windows uses 1 is actually a superset of ISO Latin 1 (called Windows Codepage 1252, or WinLatin-1 or something like that) which defines some additional characters in 128...237 range. In original ISO Latin 1, these code positions are unused and reserved for control characters (as I understand, this was done mainly for backwards compatibility reasons - if the 8th bit is dropped for some reason, you could get not-so-funny effects with characters in this range) but Microsoft likes to go its own way in these kind of things.

My argument never was that the claim "ANSI has nothing to do with the characters displayed on the screen" wouldn't be false. That original argument which you had with some other poster doesn't even interest me much; I was interested in pointing out these two other related things.

Now we are. Hopefully.

1 At least the Western European and North American versions of Windows do.

-- znark