Re: can you improve this ?
From Anita Doobie - NOW <ton...@aol.com.net.org>
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· 26 May 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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>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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