Re: ASCII??
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 9 Sep 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On 4 Sep 1998 14:08:32 GMT, "three_sixteen" posted: |uhh excuse me but it seems to me that ASCII isnt you pictures... but things |like this |���th���_��xt��n��� |for example has ASCII characters...your / | \ arent ascii |characters...their back slashes and so on... | '-------------------------- You are confused. The ASCII Character set defines a standard 7-bit code for 127 characters that computers can display. Some computers, ie MSDOS and Windows, use 8-bit codes allowing for an additional set of characters numbered 128-255 and these are *not* standard and vary from operating system to operating system. These are the characters you have listed as ascii. Try typing Alt+'065' and you should get an 'A'. This is because 65 is the ascii code for the letter A in upper case. The slashes and other lines that you mention also have codes in the 7-bit set therefore meaning that they are ascii characters and the characters you post are extended-ascii characters. I think the residents of this group deserve an apology, and you need to read out variety of FAQs. I`m not going to flame you, I`m just going to ask for an apology. Bye, Martin. |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,ae1d88d367599a97 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Subject: Re: ASCII?? Date: 1998/09/09 Message-ID: <35f...@news.vossnet.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 389464265 References: <01bdd80e$4f2357e0$4c662e9c@austin> X-Complaints-To: abu...@cableinet.net X-Trace: news3.cableinet.co.uk 905365041 6772 195.188.10.2 (9 Sep 1998 18:17:21 GMT) Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet) Reply-To: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 1998 18:17:21 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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