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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ hold values ranging from 0 to 255. ASCII codes only went up to 127, so some
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machines assigned values between 128 and 255 to accented characters. Different
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machines had different codes, however, which led to problems exchanging files.
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Eventually various commonly used sets of values for the 128--255 range emerged.
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- Some were true standards, defined by the International Standards Organization,
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- and some were *de facto * conventions that were invented by one company or
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- another and managed to catch on.
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+ Some were true standards, defined by the International Organization for
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+ Standardization, and some were *de facto * conventions that were invented by one
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+ company or another and managed to catch on.
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255 characters aren't very many. For example, you can't fit both the accented
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characters used in Western Europe and the Cyrillic alphabet used for Russian
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