Re: Displaying extended ASCII characters in output of octal dump as hexadecimal

2012-10-10 Thread GrahamC
On 10/9/2012 7:25 PM, Olumide wrote: > When I run octal dump (od) I notice that extended ASCII characters are > displayed incorrectly as ordinary characters. For example, the extended > characters 191, 196, and 218 are displayed as '?' , 'D' and 'Z' > respectively. I thought od was 'anding' the ea

Re: Displaying extended ASCII characters in output of octal dump as hexadecimal

2012-10-09 Thread marco atzeri
On 10/9/2012 7:25 PM, Olumide wrote: When I run octal dump (od) I notice that extended ASCII characters are displayed incorrectly as ordinary characters. For example, the extended characters 191, 196, and 218 are displayed as '?' , 'D' and 'Z' respectively. I thought od was 'anding' the each char

Displaying extended ASCII characters in output of octal dump as hexadecimal

2012-10-09 Thread Olumide
When I run octal dump (od) I notice that extended ASCII characters are displayed incorrectly as ordinary characters. For example, the extended characters 191, 196, and 218 are displayed as '?' , 'D' and 'Z' respectively. I thought od was 'anding' the each character with 127, but I've been infor