X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,bf1a4f526763ab4a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Anybody have any more lines? Date: 1997/07/30 Message-ID: <33DF569A.2781E494@nospam.sm.luth.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 261245793 References: <33DD7986.794BDF32@nospam.sm.luth.se> <5rmeb6$f2q$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking several spammers out of their accounts) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art miK wrote: > > Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > >[ >8 ] > >> > >> Strange... I thought ~ was meant to be put above a letter (like in > >> spanish). Does ~ serve other/better purposes in the computer > >> environment? Or does ~ even belong to a wholly different typo* > >> tradition? > > >The spanish letter that looks like an n with a tilde (~) over it is not > >an n but a letter of its own (just like the Swedish letters ���, that > >look like a, a, and o with rings and dots over them are not the letters > >a, a, and o but completely different letters). > > >The tilde character is a character of its own and cannot be "put above" > >another character. One example of how it is used is that it means "my > >home directory" in the unix world. For example, writing cd > >~/pictures will take me to the directory named "pictures" in my home > >directory, no matter where I stand when I write that command. > > ??? What does this _�_ look like on your screen ??? It looks like an n with a line over it. http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/n.gif > > The [shift`space] aka ~ is part of the 7-bit alphabet for sure - i > checked - the [shift`n] aka � is not. But is it 8-bit or even worse: > windoze specific? The "7-bit alphabet" looks like this: | 0 NUL| 1 SOH| 2 STX| 3 ETX| 4 EOT| 5 ENQ| 6 ACK| 7 BEL| | 8 BS | 9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI | | 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB| | 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US | | 32 SP | 33 ! | 34 " | 35 # | 36 $ | 37 % | 38 & | 39 ' | | 40 ( | 41 ) | 42 * | 43 + | 44 , | 45 - | 46 . | 47 / | | 48 0 | 49 1 | 50 2 | 51 3 | 52 4 | 53 5 | 54 6 | 55 7 | | 56 8 | 57 9 | 58 : | 59 ; | 60 < | 61 = | 62 > | 63 ? | | 64 @ | 65 A | 66 B | 67 C | 68 D | 69 E | 70 F | 71 G | | 72 H | 73 I | 74 J | 75 K | 76 L | 77 M | 78 N | 79 O | | 80 P | 81 Q | 82 R | 83 S | 84 T | 85 U | 86 V | 87 W | | 88 X | 89 Y | 90 Z | 91 [ | 92 \ | 93 ] | 94 ^ | 95 _ | | 96 ` | 97 a | 98 b | 99 c |100 d |101 e |102 f |103 g | |104 h |105 i |106 j |107 k |108 l |109 m |110 n |111 o | |112 p |113 q |114 r |115 s |116 t |117 u |118 v |119 w | |120 x |121 y |122 z |123 { |124 | |125 } |126 ~ |127 DEL| where only the characters 32-126 are suitable for ascii art. I do not see that Spanish "tilde-n" there. > > Regarding the linguistical aspects my (dutch) dictionary and > encyclopedia don't agree with you. They state "tilde" is spanish for > the _~_ hispanics put above the n to reflect a [nj]-like > pronounciation (dutch phonetics). Likewise the portuguese seem to top > their a's, o's and e's with ~'s to add a prewar radio sound (squeezed > nose) to these vowels. I know what that letter is supposed to sound like in Spanish (and I distinctly remember my Spanish teacher saying that it is not a weird looking n but a letter of its own, but maybe some Spanish reader of this newsgroup can help us since I suspect you are not more of an expert in this than I am...) > > Maybe the tilde is of arabic descent? > > 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 > But it's allways the freestanding variant, which was in the original > ASCII-set after all. (see the table I put above...) > > I asked because i hoped there was a curl on my keyboard i didn't know > of. > > >Here is an example of what it looks like compared to other text on my > >screen: > > >http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/tilde.gif > > Checked it / nice gif-ani's you have. :) > I only made the one where llizard eats the parachuter myself, all the others are made by other people... > mic > > mic > > >>Take one of the ff out to respond to proper email address<< > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )