On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Andrew Sly wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Dennis McCarthy wrote:
Exactly what characters make up 7-bit ascii?
Generally, are the following (Alt+0000 thro' Alt+0127) always okay?
One thing I might add to this discussion is a matter of semantics. The character _`_ does belong to ascii (96-decimal, 60-hex) However it is a spacing grave accent mark, and not an opening single quote, which you may sometimes see it used for in text files.
A while ago, I had the address of a web page which explained in detail why ASCII-96 should not be used as an opening single quote, but I can't find it now.
Since French doesn't really USE the ` with the spacing, other than in cases where we usually would use _`_ or " ' " etc, it is really somewhat of a moot point. In addition, if this really had been intended to be a French accent grave, why is the "_" between it and the " ^ " which could be the French accent cironflex. . .not to mention the lack of an accent aigue, etc. . . . 87 57 W 88 58 X 89 59 Y 90 5A Z 91 5B [ 92 5C \ 93 5D ] 94 5E ^ <<< 95 5F _ 96 60 ` <<< 97 61 a 98 62 b 99 63 c Michael