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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Jun 2001.
Re: HELP a newbie out.........

Re: HELP a newbie out.........

Eli the Bearded a �crit :
> 
> In alt.ascii-art, avinit <avi...@midget27.freesrve.co.uk> wrote:
> > How many control characters are present in the ASCII code?
> 
> Typically chars 0-31 are called control characters, but 127 is
> one as well, making 33 control chars altogether.
> 
> Note though: Characters above 127 are not ASCII.
> 
> Some character sets (eg iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) reservere the
> first 32 characters of the 128-255 region for some sort of
> control characters, I don't know the exact details. I do know
> that Microsoft (ab)uses that reserved range for curly quotes and
> the like.
> 
> Elijah
> ------
> won't go into the "charset" vs "character sets" vs "font", etc, thing here

Great thing about the Mac - I can add key features that allow me to
access all character values up to "FFh" (255d) and with either the 
Apple� resource editor or a font editing program I can design my own
"picture" fonts.  With ResEd I can put them into my system file. That
allows me to print a better bold, italic, etc. type version than the
printing software will print.
Of course, 0 - 31 and 127 are as you noted - "reserved for system use".
Designing your own keyboard layout also allows easy encryption. The
"key" is the altered keyboard layout.

MiKe�

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