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From: guckes@somerville.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: What's in an ASCII?
Date: 1996/08/19
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billr1@midwest.net (Bill Risher):
> > >Haven't you ever looked at an ASCII table?
> yeah,i'm looking at one now,and it has 255 characters. it has the
> keyboard chars(0-127) and it has the extended chars(128-255),

That's not 255 but 256 characters!

> which include the accented vowels,the line drawing chars (179-218), and the
> mathematical chars, plus a few extras such as shaded blocks and half blocks.

Have you ever wondered why the characters with eigth bit set appear
differently on other systems?  Hint:  Different characters set codes.

If you want to make sure that other people will see the same "kind" of picture
then you should use the ASCII as defined without eigth bit set.

Sven