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From: Philip Newton <pne-news-20020123@newton.digitalspace.net>
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:24:02 +0000 (UTC), drsquare
<nowhere@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:

> The 8th bit is 0, therefore it's ASCII.

But it's not a printable character, just like, say, ESC or VT or SI or
other characters from 0 to 31.

ASCII control characters are 0 to 31 and 127.

Cheers,
Philip
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