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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Aug 1996.

                            
    
    
Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.

                    

                        From Bill Risher <bil...@midwest.net>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 16 Aug 1996 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
WarDancer wrote:
> 
> mvc...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Matt Corks) wrote:
> 
> >No, it doesn't.  It never has.  There are 2^7 = 128 ASCII characters, not
> >2^8 = 256.  Your "=DF" is a MIME thing, since you posted with Netscape,
> >and those of us who use VT 100 compatible terminals see garbage.  Haven't
> >you ever looked at an ASCII table?
yeah,i'm looking at one now,and it has 255 characters. it has the
keyboard chars(0-127) and it has the extended chars(128-255),which
include the accented vowels,the line drawing chars(179-218),and the
mathematical chars,plus a few extras such as shaded blocks and half
blocks.
> 
> Something extra to consider is that the TCP/IP protocol is 7-bit.  If
well,then i am glad that mine is auto-encoded
--
 _ _ _ _   _ ____ ____    _ __ ____ ___      bil...@midwest.net
| | | | |_| |_  _|__  |  | / /|_  _|   \     Of all the things I've
| | | | ._. |_||_ ,',' ==|  <  _||_| |) )    ever lost, I miss my
 \_,_/|_| |_|____|____|  |_\_\|____|___/     mind the most.



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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