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Posted by szr on April 26, 2008, 4:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options Martijn Lievaart wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:59:10 -0700, szr wrote:
>
>> RedGrittyBrick wrote:
>>> szr wrote:
>>>>
>>>> He's after a ' ', which us a non-breaking space, which is
>>>> ASCII 0xA0 hex or 160 dec. ' ' can even be re-written as
>>>> ' ' .
>>>>
>>>>
>>> s/ASCII/Unicode/
>>
>> No, it's ASCII. Extended Ascii to be precise.
>
> Extended ASCII is a general name for several incompatible extensions
> to ASCII. They are NOT ASCII.
>
> But The above IS Unicode. Which is in itself also an extension of
> ASCII, BTW.
The old printed out list I have doesn't make this distinction, but you
are right the Unicode is -an- extension.
>> My ascii chart (an old printed out list I have) lists DEC 225 as
>> "Lowercase 'a' with acute accent" and DEC 160 as being reserved or a
>> blank (which is used as a non breaking space.)
>>
>> These links show the same:
>> http://www.ascii-code.com/
>
> The "extended" ASCII shown here is the Windows extension, which in
> itself is an extension of ISO-Latin-1 which is an extension of ASCII.
> The site notes this, and is in itseld correct. And it does not
> support your idea of extended ASCII.
I got the same output on my Linux system in it's xterm launched from KDE
as I did in Secure CRT in windows, which matches up to outpout used in
windows.
This extended ASCII set I'm refering to is what HTML (such as aka
 ) is based on, or perhaps more precisely based on ISO-Latin-1.
>> http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Programming/ascii_table/
>> PROGRAMMING_ascii_table.shtml
>
> This site is plain wrong.
In what way? It's the same list in my O'Reilly HTML Pocket Reference, as
is the previous link.
> Don't believe everything on tha Intuhnet.
I don't, but ut matches up with what things like HTML go by (again,
ISO-Latin-1 unless otherwise specified in the HEAD, META tags in the
case of HTML.)
--
szr
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