Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com>: > On 26/05/16 10:20, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> ASCII has taken new meanings. For most coders, in relaxed style, it >> refers to any byte-oriented character encoding scheme. In C terms, >> >> ASCII == char * > > Is this really true? So by "taken new meanings" you are saying that it > has actually lost all meaning.
You are exaggerating. > The 'S' stands for "Standard". It's an encoding (each byte value refers > to a particular character value according to that standard). > > To say that any array of bytes, regardless of what each byte value > should be interpreted as, is "ASCII" makes no sense. Read what I wrote: "character encoding scheme". Even C's "char" type strongly suggests textual characters. However, I must correct myself slightly: ASCII refers to any byte-oriented character encoding scheme *largely coinciding with ASCII proper*. But since all of them *are* derivatives of ASCII proper, mentioning is somewhat redundant. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
