[PD] Symbol/character set

[timon]

Hi,

Im using GEM for some typographic visualisations and need an extended  
set of characters, at least the first 256 of the roman standard. It  
appears that the symbol object supports a bunch (like 8 bit). Im  
loading the content from an external text file and I need to use  
[l2s] together with [ascseq] to split the text into individual  
symbols. Obviously there's a catch with using [ascseq] as its a  
limited character set set. But it appears that [list] or [textfile]  
also has the same limitation (like 7 bit). Is this intended and is  
there a workaround?

Im using HC's PD-039.2 extended test 4


Thanks,
Timon