[HECnet] Arabic / Unicode support on VMS?

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
So? Most computer systems aren't aware of the history of their text.
Take ASCII for example, most of us know what and why it was created.
Also the code page CP437. But do the machines care? I suspect not.
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

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On 18 Dec 2013, at 22:12, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!
What's wrong with ordinary English characters, and all upper case? It
wasn't until the development of the computer, that teletypes suddenly
found themselves speaking upper and lower case.
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I think you'll find they're LATIN characters, derived from the Etruscans,
who got their script from the Greeks who in turn got it from Byblos, Lebanon,
AKA Jbeil. Great little town, pretty girls, good food and awesome little
corner bars in the medieval souq.