Re: clueless in New York

hehe.. cool using NJstar  alt+ 658 and alt +654 are the characters for NI
and TO.  This is Japanese btw.

The characters you refer to, since I am assuming you are living in America
using our computers, are actually the same as 146 and 142 I believe...
The character set we use is 8 bit/1 byte and has 256 assigned characters
in it.  Humm side note but I wonder what ROGUE looks like in other
countries?  humm...
you can only produce characters form the 256, typing 666 or the like will
only cause the computer to do math and give you the character 154.
Countries like China and Japan, since they don't use the Roman alphabet
and have 2000-3000 characters unlike our 26 they need 2/bytes to represent
their character sets.  which could actually represent 65536.... humm...

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ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) 


<Picture>ASCII is the most common format for text files in computers and
on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special
character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s
or 1s). 128 possible characters are defined. 

UNIX and DOS-based operating systems (except for Windows NT) use ASCII for
text files. Windows NT uses a newer code, Unicode. IBM's System 390
servers use a proprietary 8-bit code called EBCDIC. Conversion programs
allow different operating systems to change a file from one code to
another. 

ASCII was developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). 

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On 18 Dec 1998, A3APA3A wrote:

> 
> I have a question- when you hold alt on the keyboard and enter a combination
> of numbers on the numeric pad on the right, you get different characters. Say,
> alt+ 658 produces Æ and alt + 654 produces Ä.
> Are those ASCII characters? What's the history behind this way of entering
> symbols?
> 
>