At 9:50 PM +0100 1/20/05, Sune Foldager wrote:
On 20. jan 2005, at 18:57, Eric Hsu wrote: At 10:47 AM +0100 1/20/05, Ralph Pöllath wrote:
You may want to refer to an ASCII chart (just google it).
Or type "man ascii" into Terminal.app (without the quotes, of course).
Wow, I didn't know that was there! However, the man page is American-centric and stops at x7F. The accented letters live in the lower part of x80-xFF.
Yes, but ASCII is a 7-bit code, hence only contains characters 0x00-0x7F. Common 8-bit codes are ISO-8859-1 and Mac Roman etc. ... so I guess it's just a matter of terms, sorry for me being pedantic here
You are completely correct. If one can't be pedantic in computer science, where can one? :)
The original sentence meant to convey the idea that some people don't like having accented characters treated as gremlins. In order to avoid that, they can look at the 8-bit extensions to ASCII and take their favorite characters and adapt Zap non-ASCII preserve them.
For this purpose "man ascii" isn't helpful, and they'll need either to roll their own chart for their favorite encoding or google one.
best, Eric