On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:36:34 +0000, Prasad, Ramit wrote: >> > Technically, ASCII goes up to 256 but they are not A-z letters. >> > >> Technically, ASCII is 7-bit, so it goes up to 127. > >> No, ASCII only defines 0-127. Values >=128 are not ASCII. >> >> >From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII: >> >> ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing >> control characters (now mostly obsolete) that affect how text and >> space is processed and 95 printable characters, including the space >> (which is considered an invisible graphic). > > > Doh! I was mistaking extended ASCII for ASCII. Thanks for the > correction.
There actually is no such thing as "extended ASCII" -- there is a whole series of many different "extended ASCIIs". If you look at the encodings available in (for example) Thunderbird, many of the ISO-8859-* and Windows-* encodings are "extended ASCII" in the sense that they extend ASCII to include bytes 128-255. Unfortunately they all extend ASCII in a different way (hence they are different encodings). -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
