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From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 May 2010 04:22
Martin-S <cgzjmthpzs(a)lzrpqi.net> wrote:

> Traditionally the mac OS has been very good with handling special
> characters from the upper ascii range, even though some applications
> weren't.

Certainly back in the System 6 days, I never met anything which had any
issue at all with any printable character in a file name, as you'd
expect, because Macs have never used ASCII encoding (7 bit), but always
at least 8 bit encoding so there's no legacy problems to trip up anyone.

Back then, I only met trouble with `Macs and characters you don't find
in the ASCII set in filenames' when moving files from one file system to
another.

I've met some apps on Macs which *have* had trouble with `dodgy chars in
filenames', but they've all been ported from Micro$oft SomethingOrOther.

Unix-sourced apps seem fine on the whole - although back in the old
days, you needed a translation layer so as to switch : and / when going
from one to the other (you know what I mean), or things broke.

Ports of TeX, donchaknow.

[snip]

Rowland.

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From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 May 2010 05:39
Martin-S <cgzjmthpzs(a)lzrpqi.net> wrote:

> nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk (Duncan Kennedy) wrote:
>
> > This always catches the newcomer who uses
> > Microsoft applications and sends their pages to a Linux / UNIX server
> > which is case sensitive, with predictable results and much loss of hair.
>
> Yes, I realise web design is a different issue and I do stick to the
> lower ascii range, lowercase, no spaces in that area.

`Lower ASCII range' makes no sense.

ASCII is a 7 bit encoding, running from 0 (null) to 127 (del). 128-255
is non-ASCII and always had been.

Macs have never run on ASCII.

IBM PCs (and onwards) have always used what got called `extended ASCII'
- i.e., the 7 bit ASCII encoding in the bottom half, and `other stuff'
in the top half.

They still can, but thankfully Unicode is taking over.

[snip]

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