merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 23 days agoThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up1393
arrow-up1393imageThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 23 days agomessage-square56linkfedilink
minus-squareThe_Decryptor@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 days agoThat’s “Extended ASCII”, basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ? And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They’re just virtual these days.
minus-squareesa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-223 days agoNo, I’m pretty sure the weird o with the leg is in basic ASCII. It’s also missing Latin characters like Æ. It’s a very weird standard.
That’s “Extended ASCII”, basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ?
And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They’re just virtual these days.
No, I’m pretty sure the weird o with the leg is in basic ASCII. It’s also missing Latin characters like Æ. It’s a very weird standard.