> On 23-Apr-07, at 7:07 AM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote: > >> Le 22 avr. 07 ? 16:06 Soir, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit: >> >>> On Apr 21, 2007, at 22:13 UTC, TJ Hanson, PhD wrote: >>> >>>> Solved. The Mac ASCII decimal value for a degree symbol is 161. >>> >>> That's not an ASCII value; ASCII values range from 0-127 only. >> >> I think we should forget about the ASCII term. >> They are only a subset of characters, only useable in english >> languages. > > ASCII is a perfectly valid term > The confusion is "all those characters above 127" and how to refer to > them > > But if people say "high ascii" pretty much every knows what is meant
"high bytes" is actually correct. And one letter shorter. Unless the standards comittee who made ASCII decide to define ASCII to allow for high bytes, then it doesn't actually have any high bytes. ASCII is low bytes only and that's how it is. -- http://elfdata.com/plugin/ "String processing, done right" _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
