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Character Set Chronolgy
- SIXBIT (codes 20-5F)
- PASCII (codes 20-7E), includes SIXBIT
- ASCII (codes 00-7F), includes PASCII, which in turn includes SIXBIT
- *IBM Code Page 437 (codes 00-FF), includes ASCII, which in turn includes PASCII, which in turn includes SIXBIT (not a unicode standard in the 80-FF range!)
- ISO 8859-Part 1 (codes 00-FF), includes ASCII, which in turn includes PASCII, which in turn includes SIXBIT
- *Windows 1252 (codes 00-FF), includes ASCII, which in turn includes PASCII, which in turn includes SIXBIT (includes the A0-FF portion of ISO 8859-Part 1, not a unicode standard in the 80-9F range!)
- Unicode (codes 000000-10FFFF), includes ISO 8859-Part 1, which in turn includes ASCII, which in turn includes PASCII, which in turn includes SIXBIT
Some other character sets of note include ATASCII, ATARIST, EBCDIC 037, EBCDIC 038, DEC, APPLE,
IBM Code Page 850 (graphics for 00-20 and 7F-9F), ISO 8859-Parts 2-16, MAC OS ROMAN.
Common Code Points
- (20-5F) SIXBIT
- (20-7E) SIXBIT, PASCII, ASCII, IBM Code Page 437, ISO 8859-Part 1, Windows 1252, IBM Code Page 850
- (00-1F, 7F) ASCII, IBM Code Page 437, ISO 8859-Part 1, Windows 1252
- (80-9F) ISO 8859-1 (not Windows 1252!)
- (A0-FF) ISO 8859-1, Windows 1252, IBM Code Page 850
- (100-10FFFF) "lost" glyphs for characters seen in sets in ranges for IBM Code 437 (80-FF),
ISO 8859-2 through 16 (00-1F, 7F-9F), Windows 1252 (80-9F), IBM Code Page 850 (00-1F, 7F-9F)
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