ASCII are the 7-bit codes, 0-127. In the days of the teletype, the 8th bit was used for parity. -- Gene From: Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2015 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Non-ASCII Particularly since "there's no standard interpretation for eight-bit codes", I'm not sure which characters on my Mac count as ASCII. What about accented Latin, like ü, é, à, ô, etc. ??? Thanks, Dan
On May 3, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
A Minsky is a polygon in R?. It is completely specified by two real parameters, ? and ?, and any one of its vertex points.
Sigh. As has been mentioned before, non-ASCII characters all get turned into question marks in the digest, often rendering messages incomprehensible. Please don't use them. Thanks.
Presumably this is done by the digestifying software since there's no standard interpretation for eight-bit codes. . . .
Keith F. Lynch