Re: a list of ascii codes in hex binary and plain language
From Ilmari Karonen <use...@itz.pp.sci.fi>
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· 2 Jan 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On 29 Dec 1999 16:11:12 +0100, Neil Franklin (nei...@franklin.ch.remove) wrote:
: 0-127 are the only true ASCII (as defined in ISO-646).
: But 32-126 are considered the _subset_ of ASCII usable for art,
: because too many newsreaders and file viewers can not handle the
: 0-31 and 127 properly.
Just to pick one more nit, codes 32-126 are the *printable* ASCII
characters. ASCII art uses those, as well as the characters 10 and
13 (depending on local conventions) for line breaks.
An ascii picture is a matrix of printable ASCII characters,
usually stored and transmitted as lines of plain ASCII text
separated by line breaks (CR, LF or CR/LF).
An ascii animation is a sequence of ascii pictures shown at
regular intervals to simulate motion. While these have been
traditionally separated by ASCII Form Feed characters, many
other storage and display conventions exist today.
Should this be in the FAQ, just so we can quote it the next time
someone tries to stretch the rules?
--
Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"Whatever you do, don't hold a mouthful of Coke for nine days."
-- Jon M in AFU
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