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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 May 2000.
Re: can you improve this ?

Re: can you improve this ?

>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.

ObASCII:

L    <--- My left foot
-- 
I am the one you warned me of. - BOC - Imaginos

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