27 Nov
2004
27 Nov
'04
8:34 a.m.
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. Andrew