KvE> Just out of curiosity, what is high-ASCII ?

   Usually known as the ASCII characters higher than 0x7f.

 KvE> Because there is no consensus on what is to be represented by these so
 KvE> called high-ASCII.

   No need to. Every region (outside of Z1 and Z3) -- meaning parts of the
world using completely different languages -- takes care of it's own. The rest
can simply either ignore it or take the recent technical developments and
handle it accordingly.

 BF>> many years now, and I'm still just Bj?rn in the nodelist there... :(

 KvE> It is not the magic on how it is to be done.

   No magic needed. My 15yo Y2K patch can handle it.

 KvE> The option for the control file to enable 8 bit characters is Allow8Bit
and
 KvE> should then be set to "1".

   Maybe you haven't have time to read my recent comments yet? What I'm asking
is, why this option is even needed. And if it is, why is the default to have
it disabled and not vice versa?

 KvE> you have written there is no single way to write Bj?rn.

   But there is! *I* write it the way I want it. In my Region20 file it's
written the way I want it. That's simply the way *I* want it. Freedom of
expression, anyone...?

 KvE> But I am still curious, what definition of high-ASCII will be used?

   None at all. If we regard the nodelist as the simple, binary file that it
was intended to be from the very beginning, we can put whatever characters
that we want in there.

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