Re: ^Z character in VRML files

Chris Marrin (cmarrin@ariel.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 6 Oct 1995 15:18:07 -0700


> Humm... what does the VRML spec say about languages? I always
> presumed that everything had to be in ISO-8859-1 7bit, meaning
> that you can't name something "year". You could have numerous
> "anus"'s in your VRML file though. :-)

The hsader line of VRML ends with the word "ascii". That is the character
set supported, not ISO8859-1 or anything else. 0x08 (tab), 0x0D (cr),
0x0A (lf), 0x20-0x7F.

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