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Re: can you improve this ?
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: can you improve this ?

                    

                        From Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 27 May 2000 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
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?
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