Character width; was: these RTL or what?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 7 Oct 2007 at 16:10, William Donzelli wrote:

> The same 1964 (I think) report states that IBM was getting concerned
> about the possibility of the alphanumeric character set expanding with
> upper and lower case, symbols, etc..

And yet, many of my bills still arrive as all upper-case.  And I'll 
wager that most of that data is stored as 8-bit characters.  Go 
figure.

Cheers,
Chuck