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What ascii character would sort before the dot character?

Which character sets is US-ASCII a proper subset of, e.g. ISO-8859-1?

  • If I labelled 7-bit as some other character set, e.g. , (ISO-8859-1), in which character sets would it continue to be properly displayed (i.e. no ASCII glyphs are substituted by others in that character set)? Clearly not EBCDIC ...

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    Anything but . Only slight ambiguity I can think of is that in traditionally \ is instead printed as the sign, but usually this is treated as just a font difference, i.e. don't attempt code conversion but just pass it through. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.aspx

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Practically in all of them. Most modern character sets (and their encodings) were conceived as extensions to and are deliberately designed to be backward-compatible with it, so that ASCII characters have the same numeric values. This is the case with all the ISO-8859 standards (including Latin-1) and with (including ).

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