X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,92ecd37d4e5db745 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-21 11:51:04 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Harry Mason Subject: Re: Slightly OT: ASCII charsets References: Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: ghoul.ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: 21 May 2002 19:45:11 GMT X-Trace: 21 May 2002 19:45:11 GMT, ghoul.ecs.soton.ac.uk Lines: 19 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!news-spool.soton.ac.uk!news.ecs.soton.ac.uk!ghoul.ecs.soton.ac.uk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:17312 On Tue, 21 May 2002 21:09:52 +0300, maraz wrote: > How many ASCII charsets are there? Only ASCII, not 'high ASCII' or > whatever. One. That's the whole point. ASCII (32-127) is standard across all character sets (except maybe multibyte sets) - which is why anyone can see ascii-art. ObASCII: _______ ,' o ,| ,-------.'o| | o | | | o |o | | o |,' `-------' -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)