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From: "GerardS" <Gerard@PrairieTech.Net>
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Subject: Re: Slightly OT: ASCII charsets
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:30:30 -0500
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| Harry Mason wrote:
|> maraz asked:
|> 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     |,'
| `-------'

You have a bad die.  The 2 and 5 (not seen) should be reversed._______Gerard S.