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Subject: Re: setting ascii for irc
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I've found that on irc alt+160 usually works the best.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:58:13 GMT, ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk)
wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:00:23 GMT, root <root@dexter.dynu.com> provoked the
>following text:
>
>>> >I did i by put a dot before aech sentence :-)
>>> >Like this, but you can take basicly any character you want, exept a space...
>>> How about Alt+255?
>>Hmmmzz... maybe, but i ain't quite able te generate the character, coz i use linux,
>>and i dunnot know (yet) how to get ASCCI characters (i is possible, i know that). I
>>you would be so kind to show me the char, you could make me xreme happy :-))
>
>ASCII is the same the world over, it stands for American Standard Code for
>Information Interchange.
>Now i'm no Linux expert, but i think that if you hold down the Alt key and type
>255 on the numeric keyboard (the right side of the keyboard), that you wil get a
>hardspace.
>Mind you, Alt+255 is _not_ ASCII, but it would generate an "invisible character"
>if you will so that you won't disturb the art itself.