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     Kommentar till en text av MARK LEWIS
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 DD> I've been fussing with the code pages on Janis' BBS trying to come 
 DD> up with something acceptable. I didn't see an option for ASCII - 
 DD> which would be ideal.
 ML> CP437 is probably going to be your best bet if it is offered... the
 ML> problem, though, is that you are trying to use ""high ascii""
 ML> characters at times (degree symbol) and those are going to be remapped
 ML> to something less then 127... the only way around that is UTF-8 but
 ML> then you're talking about multi-byte characters better known as
 ML> glyphs... anything above 127 will appear as two characters and
 ML> non-UTF-8 software will show them as those two characters instead of
 ML> the single desired glyph... oh, and UTF-8 might even use up to 4 bytes
 ML> (characters) for one glyph... 

 

 ML> apostrophies and quotes being remapped is a pain... blame the
 ML> typesetters and publishers for that mess... over all, anything not a
 ML> control code and less than 127 will be OK... this is one reason why i
 ML> don't even try to mess with ""high ascii"" characters other than the
 ML> frame characters used for drawing boxes... 250F or 100C works just fine
 ML> in 99% of the cases and saves a lot of heartache and hair loss ;)

But these people have to deal with more characters than
regular (or even irregular) ASCII can accommodate. For
quote marks alone, we have already there in ASCII:

, ' " ` 

but also not already there:

double comma (but closer spaced than two commas)
single raised comma
double raised comma
single inverted raised comma
double inverted raised comma
single and double sideways carets, forward and back (4 more)

and probably more I don't recall.

I'd rather blame the people who figured that 128 characters
were all you'd ever need. Same with the people who wanted
to add area code overlays rather than add a digit or two
to the 7-digit phone numbers.

War Eagle Mill Apple Biscuit Cake
cat: Arkansas, dessert
yield: 1

1 3/4 c War Eagle Biscuit Mix
1/2 c sugar
1 c milk
3 cooking apples, peeled and thinly sliced
Juice from 1/2 lemon
2/3 c brown sugar packed
1 ts cinnamon
1/2 c chopped pecans
1 c boiling water

Preheat oven to 350F. Mix together biscuit mix, sugar,
and milk. Pour into a 9x11" baking pan which has been
sprayed with vegetable spray. Place apple slices on
biscuit mix and sprinkle with lemon juice. In a small
bowl, mix together brown sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle
over apples. Add pecans. Pour boiling water over all.
Bake about 45 to 50 min till golden brown and apples
are done. Good served warm with ice cream or as
breakfast sweet.

Phyllis Speer for Arkansas Game and Fish Commn.


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