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 | | It is not, on the other hand, the code that is used by MS DOS (which leads to considerable confusion if you try to create documents containing 8-bit characters by using a mixture of DOS and MS Windows software!), nor, as has already mentioned, by the Mac. |
 | | Previously, the EBCDIC code used by IBM mainframes was also an issue, and mention of this will be found in the materials referenced, but with the move away from mainframes this will concern us normal mortals less and less. |
 | | For its internal text encoding, MS Windows works in terms of its own character code: this code is identical with ISO-8859-1 at the code points that are assigned to displayable characters by ISO-8859-1, but in addition it assigns displayable characters to some of the code points that ISO-8859-1 explicitly leaves undefined. |
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