Re: ASCII??

>Message-id: <01bdd80e$4f2357e0$4c662e9c@austin>
>uhh excuse me but it seems to me that ASCII isnt you pictures... but things
>like this ���th���_��xt��n���
>for example has ASCII characters...your / | \ arent ascii characters..

If you look in any 'simple' computer reference material,
 you will find that there is a difference between ASCII and
non-ASCII characters.  ASCII are the characters which are
universal from system to system.  ASCII is an acronym for
the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
This code represents English characters as numbers, with
each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127.  For example,
the ASCII code for an uppercase M is 77.  This character
set uses 7 bits for each character.  A larger character set
uses 8 bits and is known as "extended-ASCII" or "high
ASCII" .  These extra characters are used to represent
 non-English characters, graphics symbols and mathmatical
symbols (such as in the example you posted above).  The
extended characters and their numerical code have been
defined by IBM, but they have not been officially 
standardized.  This is why they are NOT included in true
ASCII art renderings.

The ANSI (an acronym for American National Standards
Institute) character set includes special characters and
associated codes which have been adopted by the ANSI.
Many of these characters overlap the extended-ASCII
character set but they use different codes.

To conclude this technical blurb... all those characters that
you list and identify as ASCII are not.   They do not fall
within the numerical codes of 0 to 127.   Of couse to further
complicate the issue, ASCII art doesn't use the numerical
codes from 0 to 31 as they are control codes such as backspace
and delete.   B'ger has posted the list of acceptable characters,
so I won't bother doing that again.  If you have more questions,
visit the newsgroup's FAQ.  There is info about ASCII and
non-ASCII characters there.  A copy of the FAQ can be
found at:  http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm

-joan
spu...@juno.com
ASCII ART GALLERY:  http://www.ascii-art.com/

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