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news alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Diesel wrote:

"Andre G. Isaak"

Sat, 06 Jan 2018 09:49:39 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

In article ,
Diesel wrote:

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Thu, 04 Jan 2018
04:47:49 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

needing to use the numeric keypad to those characters is a
windows shortcoming.

A windows shortcoming? You don't actually need to use the
numeric keypad, you do have other ways of selecting the
extended ascii characters if one so desired. But the point
remains, what normal user is going to search for characters
that aren't shown on their keyboards?

How many normal users even know there's 255 characters in the
ASCII table in the first place?

There's 128 characters in ASCII, not 255.

There's actually 256 characters in the ASCII character set.

No, it isn't.

255, my bad. That includes extended ascii etc... though. And yes, I
understand that strictly speaking, extended ascii is not an addition
to the original ASCII set, which is 128 characters. That being said
though, when I said ASCII table I wasn't isolating 128 original
characters but the entire character set. And I'm not sure how the
person who responded could have not known that?

Plus both windows and Macs have been using unicode for some time
now so ASCII isn't really relevant.

You clearly don't know what unicode is actually doing then...



Well, you certainly don't have the foggiest.


Sure I do. Perhaps you've never heard the term "Wide body ASCII" to
describe Unicode? It's an encoding format and there's more than one
of them. Several ASCII characters are used to represent a single
value in Unicode.

Technical information
Unicode number
U+0114
HTML-code
Ĕ
Latin Capital Letter E with Breve


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