Re: "read from" and non-lo-ascii characters
Re: "read from" and non-lo-ascii characters
- Subject: Re: "read from" and non-lo-ascii characters
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:55:10 -0700
On Jun 29, 2005, at 3:42 AM, Chris Page wrote:
Still, I think it's counterproductive to drub someone for using
the term 'High ASCII.'
Sometimes, consistent drubbing is necessary to get the message
through. :-P
Seriously, it's productive to try to turn people away from using a
term that is at best technically incorrect and in informal usage
misleading and vague. Letting it slide for a few decades certainly
hasn't helped anyone write correct programs or fix bugs faster.
Hencenforth, the term is "single-byte characters whose identifying
numbers are in the range of 127 to 255."
-- Michelle
--
We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem.
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