In message Peter Köhlmann 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.

*If* you had some point (you don't), it would be max 255 characters
(inclduing the control-characters)
256 characters is already extending the set to using 1 bit more (you need 9
bits for that, not just 8)

Nope. The NULL is 00, so 256 for extended ASCII (and 128 for 7 bit
ASCII).

They have nothing to do with Unicode (neither UTF-8 nor UTF-16)

Untrue. UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII and Extended ASCII.

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