On Tue, 24 May 2016 08:36 am, Christopher Reimer wrote: > Those symbols are blowing my 8-bit ASCII brain. :)
That's certainly true, because there is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII. ASCII is a 7-bit encoding. (Most implementations set the extra bit to zero, a few *very* old machines might have set it to one, and if I remember correctly, Wordstar used to use it for its own internal purposes.) What people usually mean by "extended 8-bit ASCII" is a large family of many different extensions to ASCII, many of which have multiple names for added confusion, such as Latin-1, ISO-8859-2, MacRoman, and many more. None of these are ASCII, although they contain ASCII as a subset of their characters (just as Unicode does). -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
