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)
And ASCII uses only the first 7 bits of a character, so it is only 127
characters in the ASCII set. The character sets using 8 bits are the
"extended ASCII" sets used by windows and OS/2.
They have nothing to do with Unicode (neither UTF-8 nor UTF-16)

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.