Re: HOW

spa...@mymail.com wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:51:01 +0000, alisha <sop...@g-dav.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In article <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
>>spu...@aol.com writes
>>>In article <1Of...@g-dav.demon.co.uk>, alisha
>>><sop...@g-dav.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>> Well, you get the keys;
>>>>
>>>>a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
>>>>A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
>>>>[ ] { } ; : ' @ # ~ , < . > / ? \ | ` � � 
>>>>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =
>>>>! " � $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
>>>>
>>>>and turn them into pictures & writing (i.e; animals, people, writing)
>>>
>>>hey.. there are a couple non-ascii characters in the list that ought not
>>>to be used...
>>>             �   and    �  and    � 
>>

>>Why not use them? They _are_ keys on the keyboard after all.

>Because they are not ASCII standard characters and are therefore not
>necessarily portable across systems. These characters that are on *your*
>keyboard may be entirely untranslatable on some other type of system.

>The whole purpose of the ASCII standard was to allow different machines to have
>some standard of communication. Only the 1st 127 characters are ASCII standard.
>The rest are anarchic.
>
>Alan

<sigh> Some day, one day, someone, will write a FAQ explaining this 
with such crystal clarity and simplicity that no one could possibly 
fail to understand it. I have tried with my regular "WARNING" 
posting but it clearly fails in its purpose. :-( 

I think I may try adding your paragraphs to the WARNING posting.


>>             �   and    �  and    �

Those keys are not on _my_ keyboard. I have to use the Alt key 
to access them. Why ?  Because they are part of the "Extended 
Character Set" ( paragraph 2 below ).


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                               WARNING

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Control Codes:
-------------

PLEASE do *NOT* post Colour, Color, Control Codes or Animation Codes 
to ASCII-ART newsgroups - or indeed ANY Internet newsgroup.  

It can cause an awful lot of trouble on Net systems worldwide.

If you wish to post Raw Code then UUENCODE it first !

Colour & Color Control Codes in subject titles and headers should be 
avoided entirely.  



Extended Character Set:
----------------------

The only Ascii characters which should be posted and used in Ascii
Art are:  
               Decimal characters   32 to 127.

The Extended Character Set of Decimal 128 to 255 made by using the 
Alt key, and used for ANSI pictures, must be UUencoded before 
posting to the Net and should not be used in ASCII artwork pictures.  


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Please do NOT post Colour & Color Control Codes in message headers 
and titles.  


     The problems are due to some Net software recognising the 
     Raw Code as commands which make the software do unwanted 
     things and can even cause a system to crash.  


This message is being reposted frequently because many newcomers
to the Net do not seem to know the problems caused by Control Codes. 


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I really _will_ have to try to rehash this damn thing to make it
crystal clear whilst keeping it short and precise. 

One problem with it is that I wrote it at a time when alt.ascii-art 
was full of screams saying " Please, please turn off the colour " 
and a big flamewar resulted...so the current WARNING posting is 
slanted to colour code avoidance rather than avoidance of Non-Ascii 
Characters.  

The Jorn Barger and Scarecrow FAQs do address these matters but 
again the information seems to be ineffective in reaching 
readers...assuming they even read all that stuff. The Ascii Art FAQs
have been criticised for being too long.

Bye,

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