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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 29 Dec 1999.
Re: a list of ascii codes in hex binary and plain language

Re: a list of ascii codes in hex binary and plain language

Glenn Copeland <ge...@silverchat.com> writes:
>
> Martin Atkins wrote:
> >
> > .----- On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:34, Stuart Roberts posted:
> > |I would like to have a list of all ASCII values,
> [snip]
> > '-----------------------------------
> >
> > How's this?
> >
> > Dec      Hex      Oct      Bin      Chr
> > 32       20       40       100000
> [snip]
> > 126      7E       176      1111110  ~
>
> Am I to gather from this that only the characters within the 32-126
> range are considered *true* ASCII,

0-127 are the only true ASCII (as defined in ISO-646).

But 32-126 are considered the _subset_ of ASCII usable for art,
because too many newsreaders and file viewers can not handle the
0-31 and 127 properly.


> rather than such as VT100 or ANSI?

VTxx0 and ANSI are terminal control sequences, not characters at all.

Equally PC-473 (often miss-called ANSI or DOS) and ISO-8859-x and
ISO-10646-UTF-8 are expanded character sets with 128-255 and as
such are not wellcome, because many newsreaders and file viewers
do not understand them.


--
Neil Franklin, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/

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