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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
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wrote: There is no such thing as extended ASCII. Stating that there are 256 characters in the ASCII table is just plain wrong. treu, there are pn;ly 255. "null" is not a character. Or so I was taught, way back when. you were taught wrong. null is a character, just one that has very specific uses. If you were intending to mean some 8-bit codepage, then you're not dealing with an ASCII table, you're dealing with a ISO-8859-1 table, or a MacRoman table, or a Windows 1252 table, or any of thousands of possible 8-bit encodings. Quite so, absolutely correct, but does it make a difference? it does if you want the correct characters. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
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: 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. 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. -- She hated everything that predestined people, that fooled them, that made them slightly less than human. --Witches Abroad |
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