On Friday, June 6, 2014 10:32:47 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico :
> > "ASCII" means two things: Firstly, it's a mapping from the letter A to > > the number 65, from the exclamation mark to 33, from the backslash to > > 92, and so on. And secondly, it's an encoding of those numbers into > > the lowest seven bits of a byte, with the high byte left clear. > > Between those two, you get a means of representing the letter 'A' as > > the byte 0x41, and one of them is an encoding. > The American Standard Code for Information Interchange [...] is a > character-encoding scheme [...] <URL: And a similar argument to this is seen on that page's talk page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:ASCII#Character_set_vs._Character_encoding.3F -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
