X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,21eb5f8c105d341b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-05 15:30:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!panix!news.panix.com!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: HELP a newbie out......... Date: 5 Jun 2001 22:30:54 GMT Organization: Some absurd concept Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <9fj3st$his$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 991780255 15030 166.84.0.226 (5 Jun 2001 22:30:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jun 2001 22:30:54 GMT X-Files: Used for sharpening claws and teeth on your hawk and hacksaw X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB X-Usenet-II: Because it is time for October. Encrypted: double rot-13 X-Newsreader: Sony Playstation 5.0MIPS Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:5974 In alt.ascii-art, avinit wrote: > How many control characters are present in the ASCII code? Typically chars 0-31 are called control characters, but 127 is one as well, making 33 control chars altogether. Note though: Characters above 127 are not ASCII. Some character sets (eg iso-8859-1 aka latin-1) reservere the first 32 characters of the 128-255 region for some sort of control characters, I don't know the exact details. I do know that Microsoft (ab)uses that reserved range for curly quotes and the like. Elijah ------ won't go into the "charset" vs "character sets" vs "font", etc, thing here