On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 07:03 pm, Rick McGowan wrote:
What do hackers with non Latin-based languages use for hex anyway?
They use 0-9, A-F, and a-f.
which'll be whatever characters happen to be used to represent those sections of the character set on their machines: 0x30 - 0x39, 0x41 - 0x46 and 0x61 - 0x66.
Hex is used mostly by programmers, mostly for computing, and mostly in
programming languages that have the digits and Latin letters built-in, and
that's what compilers expect to see. Hex doesn't have an independent
existence out in non-computing culture for, e.g., signs in the market place
or monetary values.
Rick
