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Re: [colorforth] Extending the character set - Take II


On Tuesday 30 March 2004 01:11 pm, Chuck Moore wrote:
> And an expanded character set isn't desirable. I was pleased to
> realize that 48 characters are adequate. More are not necessary just
> because they're on qwerty. And there is no limit to the number of
> possible characters.

Indeed, remember that the character set was designed expressly for 
entering Forth source code, intended for Forth source blocks.  Perhaps a 
more desirable solution would be to use a new character encoding, with a 
new kind of editor, for editing general purpose text, e-mails, etc.

--
Samuel A. Falvo II


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