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| Feb 8, 2023 at 9:29 | comment | added | mousetail | Sorry it was a very minor nitpick, your answer is good otherwise | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 9:24 | comment | added | TOOGAM | The term "high ASCII" refers to any character above 127. This may be a term that originated from Microsoft-published MS-DOS manuals (though I'm not certain about that). Latin-1 is the name for a Unicode block, and is term often used to describe Windows-1252 code page. On my browser, ASCII 174 looks like Code Page 437's ASCII 174 which looks like a "1/4" symbol. CP-1252 would render ASCII 174 as the "Registered Trademark" sign ®. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_ansi.asp | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 9:12 | comment | added | mousetail | When you say "high ASCII" do you mean latin-1? | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 9:11 | comment | added | TOOGAM | Fair enough. I admit that my research indicates that the term ASCII is most properly applied to just the first 128 characters (zero through 127), and others fit into the category known as "high ASCII" which is a confusing term because such "high ASCII" characters aren't specified by the ASCII standard. (My recent mis-use of the term was based on a long-standing incorrect understanding that I only corrected more recently, and so was a slip-up on my part.) I edited the answer to just call ¼ a "character". | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 9:08 | history | edited | TOOGAM | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Stopped calling ¼ ASCII |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 7:29 | comment | added | mousetail | ¼ is not a ascii value | |
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| S Feb 7, 2023 at 19:26 | history | answered | TOOGAM | CC BY-SA 4.0 |