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ASCII isn't necessarely 7 bits wide. There are 128 different characters, so you could encode them using just 7 bits. But that's pretty unusual, especially nowadays, given that bytes are typically 8 bits wide. Common ways of encoding ASCII characters use bytes, with either the high bit being 0, or by using one of the bits as a parity bit - to be able to do some error detection.
Also, ISO 8859 is a class of character sets, all supersets of ASCII, having the code points 0x80 - 0x9F undefined and the highest code point being 0xFF. But there are various mappings of the code points 0xA0 - 0XFF to characters; one of those mappings (for Western European languages) being ISO 8859-1, and only that one is known as ISO Latin-1. It's in many countries that used ISO 8859-1 superceeded by ISO 8859-15, which includes a € sign. But there are other mappings part of ISO 8859 as well.
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Well, it is included in the extended
ASCII table
I looked through my table of IBM
Extended ASCII, and didn't find it. Decimal 187
is one of the framing characters (for drawing
character-based screen windows and stuff),
specifically the double-line upper-right-corner.
(I used to use the framing characters all the time,
mostly in comments and documentation, but also for
character-based window borders and things, back in
the DOS days.)
I've never seen this double-greater-than-sign
character before in my life, as far as I know.
Hopefully I won't need parallel dispatch for
very much, because I really like my Avant Stellar
keyboard and have no intentions of switching to a
European keyboard or whatever is needed to type
unicode characters.
I don't mind if the language _supports_ unicode;
I think it's wrong to *require* it though.
;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print
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Take a look at characters 174 («) and 175 (») in the (an?) extended ASCII table and they should be there.
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