Re: ANSI/ASCII----Difference?
From J. Tse <jye...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
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· 30 Sep 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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On 29 Sep 1996, Colin Douthwaite wrote: > Stephanie Struble (str...@peak.org) wrote: > > >Can someone explain to me the difference b/w these two? I see ASCII art, > >but a friend of mine referred to ANSI art. What's the diff? > > ASCII uses the character set up to Decimal 127 only...usually the > characters on your keyboard. > > ANSI characters are Decimal 128 to 256 often referred to as the > IBM Extended Character Set. [ snipped ] Colin, How about ^M (Carriage Return) and Escape? Aren't they well below 127? I vaguely recall that ^M is 13 and Escape is 27 ... but I don't think they're included in ASCII --- they're really control codes that can change the screen colours and move the cursor around --- and mess up terminal emulations ... Am I misunderstanding? X-) J. Tse
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