In article ,
Diesel wrote:

nospam
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.

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

Andre

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