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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.

ASCII is a 7-bit code. Always has been. Windows 1252, ISO Latin 1,
MacRoman, etc. may support 256 characters, but none of these are ASCII.

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...

You're really going to have to clarify that...

Andre

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