Re: can you improve this ?
From Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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· 29 May 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On 28 May 2000 21:24:45 GMT ton...@aol.com.net.org (Anita Doobie - NOW) wrote: >>Subject: Re: can you improve this ? >>From: Bateau Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com >>Date: 5/27/00 9:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time >>Message-id: <usk...@4ax.com> >> >>On 26 May 2000 16:00:15 GMT ton...@aol.com.net.org (Anita Doobie - >>NOW) wrote: >>>>Subject: Re: can you improve this ? >>>>From: Bateau Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com >>>>Date: 5/25/00 8:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time >>>>Message-id: <P8A...@4ax.com> >>>> >>>>On Thu, 25 May 2000 23:11:28 GMT jsa...@NObayouBULK.uh.edu (Bill K) >>>>wrote: >>>>>Hello, >>>>> >>>>>I am new to ascii art. I don't intend this to sound rude. But why >>>>>does it matter if a character is not on the ascii chart? I thought >>>>>there were 256 characters in the ascii set anyways... >>>> >>>>Only the first 128 are generic, the next 128 are reserved for use by the >>>>computer maker, though the IBM extended character set is pretty >>>>standard. >>>>Also some of them can make certain newsreaders crash and do weird shit. >>> >>> Not just that, but the other 128 are also different characters in a lot >>of >>>different languages, say, the English pound sign isn't a standard ASCII >>>character. After all, ASCII stands for "American Standard Code for >>Information >>>Interchange". Same with many other characters and so on. >> >>Didn't I just say that? > >Not exactly. Not in those words. -- ~ _ ~ . ` ' , ^~ ______ ^ >(')_, ~~ _ __, _ '.___ ; *BANG* ~ (_~_/ >(')_, ` (_~_/ >(')_, `'\ \ ^ ~^~~^~ (_~_/ ~^~~^~ (_~_/ ~~ ICQ:11367619 ~ ^~^ ~^~~^~ ~^~ ~^~~^~ email:bateau at jupiterio.net
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