[TxMt] invisibles bundle update; stupefy quotes/hyphens and zap non-ASCII added

Sune Foldager cryo at cyanite.org
Thu Jan 20 20:50:07 UTC 2005


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 
;-).

-- 
Sune.
:: the Cottage of Lost Play.
:: http://cyanite.org




More information about the textmate mailing list