On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Eric Brunet wrote:

> jbezos wrote:
> > Not at all. In latin1, character in the range 130--159
> > are assigned to control characters (and hence
>
> I wouldn't say it like that: the 128--159 range is reserved so that if
> some document pass through a buggy programm that strips the eight bit,
> then the resulting document doesn't have any extra control characters (in
> the 0--31 range) with some ``interesting'' properties.

No. They have different meaning as control characters. They're not the
same as lower control characters (0x00--0x1F).

--roozbeh