Re: infinity
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:14:30 -0800, "J. Melusky" <wha...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >Extended ASCII Characters in Windows and Help Files > >Actually, none of the extended ASCII figures appear in most Windows files >according to the standard character set. This XASCII Help file shows you >what each extended ASCII character number actually produces in a Help file >and most other Windows files. > >ASCII characters 127-144, and 147-159 are null in Windows and Help files, >they produce a black area on the screen (). Character 160 produces a >space which can act as a "hard space." The thing is that the characters above 127 are "extended characters" NOT "extended ASCII characters". There is nothing defined (or ascii) about any of the extended characters. Mac will do one thing, IBM another etc. The ASCII characters (127 and below) are defined the same way on all systems that use ascii. That's why different system can actually exchange meaningful information. Alan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1bcc16dd96d9ea5f X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ala...@netcom.ca (Alan Popow) Subject: Re: infinity Date: 1996/11/19 Message-ID: <329...@nntp.netcruiser>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197357103 references: <328...@mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> <Pin...@homer19.u.washington.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Netcom Canada x-netcom-date: Mon Nov 18 11:38:12 PM EST 1996 mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ala...@netcom.ca newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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