Alan Grimes wrote:

>Lets just use 0x1b for back-arrow and demand everyone start using
>Codepage 437 again. =))))
>  
>
I strongly object :-)
CP 437 is much younger and therefore less mature than ASCII-1963.
And obviously it has been created by stealing and putting together parts 
of other character sets (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codepage_437), 
whereas ASCII-1963 seems to be a design-by-committee thing, which is 
inherently better ;-P

Cheers,
Hans-Martin