On 3/9/2010 1:36 PM Stef Mientki said...
On 09-03-2010 18:36, Robert Kern wrote:
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No, you can't. ASCII strings only have characters in the range 0..127.
You could create Latin-1 (or any number of the 8-bit encodings out
there) strings with characters 0..255, yes, but not ASCII.
Probably, and according to wikipedia you're right.
I too looked at wikipedia, and it seems historically incomplete to me.
In particular, I looked for 'high order ascii', which, when I was
working with Basic Four in the '70's, is what they used. Essentially,
the high order bit was set for all characters to make 8A a line feed,
etc. Still the same 0..127 characters, but not really an extended ascii
which is where wikipedia forwards you to.
I remember having to strap the eighth bit high when I reused the older
line printers to get them to work.
Emile
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