On 7/11/19 2:19 PM, Siri Cruise wrote:
In article ,
nospam wrote:

In article
, Siri
Cruise wrote:

Why the heck would you use the high bit on a ASCII web page,

because the desired characters aren't available otherwise.

The HTML source can and should be ASCII only.
You can use entity references
for
anything outside of ASCII. That lets the browser know what character is
intended
and present it as the browser pleases rather than make the browser guess
what
octets 80 to FF mean.

no need to guess when done correctly.

Just ASCII with entity references in ASCII is always correct. And it's easy to
do.


Good luck getting web programmers to follow that!

At times, I have masked off the high bit to tame the ridiculous

Byte AND 0b0111