Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.
>> >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. Yeah, and just how many character-sets on how many platforms include these second 128 characters!??!?!? Sweet F.A.!!! Not once in computer-science were we told about the implications of translating the "line drawing" characters in electronic communication. Why? Coz no-one f**king -cares- about them!!! Oh, and none of the ASCII tables -they- showed us included the silly extended characters either. Did you not realise that they are called the -extended- characters because they aren't a part of the Standard ASCII characters in common use!?? If they were as standard as you claim, why aren't they used in the ASCII-art we see here?!? Surely they make a -wondrous- improvement to the clarity of images posted here. (Said -very- sarcasticly.) >> Something extra to consider is that the TCP/IP protocol is 7-bit. If > well,then i am glad that mine is auto-encoded Yeah, you could get really stressed about what you should do with that extra bit. (I have some suggestions if you -really- wish to know...) Luv'n'hugs, Nathan. PS: Sod off, Noddy! ========================================================================= Nathan Wain \ When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should \ be returned to its special container n.w...@student.canterbury.ac.nz \ and kept under refrigeration. =========================================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,749a54616e5b2217 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: mis...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post. Date: 1996/08/19 Message-ID: <1996Aug19.004813@cantva>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175274348 references: <4ujhsp$fq...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <slr...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de> <321...@midwest.net> <Dw6...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <321...@news.paston.co.uk> <321...@midwest.net> organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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