Talk:National Replacement Character Set

ASCII 7C missing?
Shouldn't ASCII 7C be the pipe character ("|")? It is empty in the table. Uliwitness (talk) 13:07, 9 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Fixed. (Escaping pipe characters in tables) gparker (talk) 13:49, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

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Correcting missing letter "r" causing accidental word substitution of "counties" vs "countries".
Intro, par.1 sen.3: It was used to customize the character set to different local languages, without having to change the terminal's ROM for different counties, or...

I suppose there are regions in the world where there are enough language differences where different counties might have diverse language usages, e.g. India, but it seems extremely unlikely that demand at the institutional level, which was the main business driver back then, would have justified anything like that level of customization.

On the other hand, in the decades after ASCII and ANSI were standardized, many other Wikipedia articles are refering to these character sets from various manufactuers with the alternate name of Country Codes.

Given this gross discontinutiy, it seems much more likely that a simple letter omission was made. In fact, if DEC was actually deploying codes at a level that creates rather burdensome subdivisional distinctions not just of nations but within their subdivisions then that would arguably need some serious references to back it up and would be noteworthy enough to justify its own subsection within this article.

Also, even if it was common for some end users to experiment with different configurations (and I can imagine there were some isolated instances, but even then) there should be mention and references on what basis those deployments were in some way remarkable. However, in that event it is unlikely that "county" would be the proper word as most nations or even sub-national regions don't call them counties, but rather parishes, etc.

Tree4rest (talk) 19:22, 5 September 2019 (UTC)