Re: can you improve this ?

>Subject: Re: can you improve this ?
>From: Bateau Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com 
>Date: 5/27/00 9:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <usk...@4ax.com>
>
>On 26 May 2000 16:00:15 GMT ton...@aol.com.net.org (Anita Doobie -
>NOW) wrote:
>>>Subject: Re: can you improve this ?
>>>From: Bateau Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com 
>>>Date: 5/25/00 8:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>>>Message-id: <P8A...@4ax.com>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 25 May 2000 23:11:28 GMT jsa...@NObayouBULK.uh.edu (Bill K)
>>>wrote:
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>I am new to ascii art.  I don't intend this to sound rude.  But why
>>>>does it matter if a character is not on the ascii chart?  I thought
>>>>there were 256 characters in the ascii set anyways...
>>>
>>>Only the first 128 are generic, the next 128 are reserved for use by the
>>>computer maker, though the IBM extended character set is pretty
>>>standard.
>>>Also some of them can make certain newsreaders crash and do weird shit.
>>
>>     Not just that, but the other 128 are also different characters in a lot
>of
>>different languages, say, the English pound sign isn't a standard ASCII
>>character. After all, ASCII stands for "American Standard Code for
>Information
>>Interchange". Same with many other characters and so on.
>
>Didn't I just say that?

Not exactly.


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