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How many control characters are present in the ASCII code?

cheers

In alt.ascii-art, avinit <avi...@midget27.freesrve.co.uk> wrote:
> How many control characters are present in the ASCII code?

Typically chars 0-31 are called control characters, but 127 is
one as well, making 33 control chars altogether.

Note though: Characters above 127 are not ASCII.

Some character sets (eg iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) reservere the
first 32 characters of the 128-255 region for some sort of
control characters, I don't know the exact details. I do know
that Microsoft (ab)uses that reserved range for curly quotes and
the like.

Elijah
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won't go into the "charset" vs "character sets" vs "font", etc, thing here

avinit a �crit :
> 
> How many control characters are present in the ASCII code?
> 
> cheers

Please define control characters.

Do you mean typing control plus "i" then typing "o"
yields umlaut "o"  ??

Or - do you mean special characters ??

try "Symbol" font, zapf dingbats, etc. - 
they are all special characters but you must
have that font in your font file to read them

MiKe�

Eli the Bearded a �crit :
> 
> In alt.ascii-art, avinit <avi...@midget27.freesrve.co.uk> wrote:
> > How many control characters are present in the ASCII code?
> 
> Typically chars 0-31 are called control characters, but 127 is
> one as well, making 33 control chars altogether.
> 
> Note though: Characters above 127 are not ASCII.
> 
> Some character sets (eg iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) reservere the
> first 32 characters of the 128-255 region for some sort of
> control characters, I don't know the exact details. I do know
> that Microsoft (ab)uses that reserved range for curly quotes and
> the like.
> 
> Elijah
> ------
> won't go into the "charset" vs "character sets" vs "font", etc, thing here

Great thing about the Mac - I can add key features that allow me to
access all character values up to "FFh" (255d) and with either the 
Apple� resource editor or a font editing program I can design my own
"picture" fonts.  With ResEd I can put them into my system file. That
allows me to print a better bold, italic, etc. type version than the
printing software will print.
Of course, 0 - 31 and 127 are as you noted - "reserved for system use".
Designing your own keyboard layout also allows easy encryption. The
"key" is the altered keyboard layout.

MiKe�

On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 06:55:57 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?MiKe=AE?= <pei...@lascaux.cave> wrote:


>
>Great thing about the Mac - I can add key features that allow me to
>access all character values up to "FFh" (255d) and with either the 
>Apple resource editor or a font editing program I can design my own
>"picture" fonts.  With ResEd I can put them into my system file. That
>allows me to print a better bold, italic, etc. type version than the
>printing software will print.
>Of course, 0 - 31 and 127 are as you noted - "reserved for system use".
>Designing your own keyboard layout also allows easy encryption. The
>"key" is the altered keyboard layout.
>
>MiKe�

problem with that is no one but you could see it that way, not sure what that has to do with ASCII



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In alt.ascii-art, MiKe�  <p�che...@la.toile> wrote:
> > Elijah
> > won't go into the "charset" vs "character sets" vs "font", etc, thing here
> Great thing about the Mac - I can add key features that allow me to
> access all character values up to "FFh" (255d) and with either the 

Nothing special about a Mac there. But why limit yourself to one-byte
character systems? UCS-4 should have enough space for any glyphs you
can imagine in the unused spaces, while leaving all the glyphs people
have ever used untouched. 

> Apple� resource editor or a font editing program I can design my own
> "picture" fonts.  With ResEd I can put them into my system file. That
> allows me to print a better bold, italic, etc. type version than the
> printing software will print.

Why use ResEdit? Make the font, and install it as you would any other
font. Or did you mean ResEdit to make the font? I thought it could
only do bitmap fonts, and those won't print nice.

> Of course, 0 - 31 and 127 are as you noted - "reserved for system use".
> Designing your own keyboard layout also allows easy encryption. The
> "key" is the altered keyboard layout.

I've remapped the keyboard on other OSs besides Macs. 

ObAscii:

        `MMMMMMMMb                     dMMP
          "MMMMMMMM.                 dMMM
           `MMMMMMMMb               dMMP
             `MMMMMMMM.           dMM'
              `MMMMMMMMb         MMM'
                TMMMMMMMM.     dMMP
                 `MMMMMMMMb   MMM
                   "MMMMMMP MMM'
                    `MMMM',MMM
                    ,dMM',MMMMM
                   dMMP dMMMMMMMb
                 .MMM    TMMMMMMMM.
               .MMM'      `MMMMMMMMb
              dMM'          `MMMMMMMM.
            ,dMM'            `EMMMMMMMb
           dMM'                TMMMMMMMM
          MMM                   `BMMMMMMMb
         """                      """""""""

Elijah
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currently working with a slightly broken keymap in X11

On 6 Jun 2001 20:17:58 GMT, Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> wrote:

>> Great thing about the Mac - I can add key features that allow me to
>> access all character values up to "FFh" (255d) and with either the 
>
>Nothing special about a Mac there.

The Amiga comes to mind.. :-) Most high ascii values can be typed on the
keyboard by pressing alt or alt+shift along with a letter.
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