Re: [WinMac] ASCII differences

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]adobe.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:25:15 -0400

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At 8:50 AM -0400 7/24/98, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>Excuse my ignorance, but I always thought that ASCII was ASCII no matter
>the platform. I have since discovered that Mac and PC ASCII differ in
>small ways.
>
7 bit ASCII (aka the bottom 128 characters) are the same on both
Mac and PC (and all other platforms that support ASCII) - HOWEVER 8 bit
ASCII (aka Extended ASCII and the top 128 characters) differ between
platforms.

>I recently copied a file with an underscore ('_') in the file name from a
>Mac to an NT server only to find that the file was not recognized by a
>Windows 95 computer and, furthermore, I could not rename or delete the file
>(now on the NT server) using the Mac that copied the file to the NT server
>in the first place!
>
That sounds like a bug in the software somewhere - either in the
server or the client. An underscore is a valid character for filenames on
both Mac and Win.

Leonard
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