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From: Veronica Karlsson <e93-vkn@nospam.sm.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Anybody have any more lines?
Date: 1997/08/05
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miK wrote:
[ 8< ]
> >>
> >> ??? What does this _�_ look like on your screen ???
> 
> >It looks like an n with a line over it.
> 
> Not bad. The surrounding signs are recognizable (pretty much the same
> in my newsreader). And when one takes the effort to zoom in on the
> tilde there even seems to be an elegant "curl" in it (this is the msg
> i posted ;)

That little "curl" only exists in your head! To prove that is easy, here
is the same picture only a few times bigger: 

http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/n.big.gif

> 
> Note: the "tilde" look-alike is put above the n.
> Hurray for UU-net.
> 
> >http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/n.gif
> 
[ 8< ]
> 
> There has to be a way to put ascii126 above ascii110 in a unix
> text-editor. Mozilla managed. Check the manual, please ;)

PLEASE! If you don't understand that you are wrong then at least spare
the rest of us from having to listen! Take a course in how computers
work! (you can't put two ascii characters "above" each other the same
way that you can type two different characters in the same place on a
typewriter! You can get that � charachter but it will not have any
"bitwise" relation to either the n character or the ~ character, it will
be a non-standard ascii character of its own , or possibly a code of
some sort.)

[ 8< ]
> Correct ;0  Never claimed to be an expert though. "Teachers" do not
> necessarily tell the thruth. Did you ask your teacher about the way ~
> sounds like without the n? I figure his answer is something like (...)

That teacher doesn't know that there is such a thing as a ~
It does not "have a sound". It is not a letter in any language (that I
know of anyway). It is just an ascii character, a little curl that looks
cute, just like the / or % or " or # charachters are not letters in any
language.

[ 8< ]
> 
> >> About the way ~ is used in a comp environment i think you're right.
> 
> >I know I'm right because I use it every day... :D
> 
> "Comp environment" does not exactly match a UNIX platform. :(

What do you mean?

> 
> >> But it's allways the freestanding variant, which was in the original
> >> ASCII-set after all.
> 
> >(see the table I put above...)
> 
> Look again. My guess is you see something completely different than i
> do. That's why i....:

As far as the characters in that table are concerned I see EXACTLY the
same characters as you see! (That is the reason why that particular set
of characters are recommended for ascii art - because they the only
characters that are sure to look the same way for everybody!)

[ 8< ]

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )