Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.
From Dan Strychalski <dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.twx>
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· 14 Feb 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Tony Relyea (are...@vt.edu) wrote -- > ....I have never even seen the FAQ. The group is called ASCII art. > I thought that meant ASCII (all ASCII).... That is correct. And the printable ASCII character set consists of the characters on the keycaps in the normal typing block of a U.S. English keyboard. "Extended ASCII" is a misnomer; there are extensions *to* ASCII, but there is no "extended ASCII." Among the extensions are the upper range of ISO 8859-1, IBM Code Page 437, and the Macintosh extended character set. Please try to understand: ASCII is 7 bits. That allows 128 codes. Each code is assigned a control function or a character. There are 32 control functions, the space character, 94 printing characters (also called, misleadingly, "graphic characters"), and the delete function. Some keyboards have non-ASCII characters on some keycaps, but you can be sure that if it *ain't* on a keycap it *ain't* ASCII. Dan Strychalski dski at cameonet, cameo, com, tw
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