31 Jul
2001
31 Jul
'01
11:24 p.m.
Sometime Today, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
BTW what are the chars with the 8th bit set (128-255) doing? Is that by any means standard? I've seen fonts having the (C) and (TM) symbols lurking somewhere in that range.
For the IBM PC, those are Extended ASCII, or something like that. Basically, anything with the 7th bit (there is no 8th bit) set is not portable across devices. Some terminals use 7 bit characters with one parity bit, others use the 7th bit as a stop bit. In general, the 7th bit is stripped from a character to get its ASCII code.
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