Re: ASCII - Why...? -- as promised.

[Francis Belliveau]

All,

It was more work that I had expected, and life got in the way a bit, but I put 
up a page that has my explanation of ASCII.
It can be found at

> http://flb.adamb.me/software/ascii_explaination.html

I would appreciate comments on what I say there.
However, since that will take us far off topic, they should probably not be 
sent here, but rather directly to me.

I hope that at least some of you find what I have to say on the subject useful.

Fran


> On Jan 9, 2021, at 12:20, Francis Belliveau <f.belliveau@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
>>> 
>>> You shouldn't mix the hexadecimal and decimal representation of the
>>> characters.  The ASCII characters 0x01-0x1a (inclusive), i.e. the
>>> characters in the range 1-26 (decimal), are the ctrl- variant of the A-Z
>>> ASCII characters (0x41-0x5a).
>> 
>> Why is the ASCII table designed into this strange layout?
>> 
> 
> My answer is that it is not when viewed in light of a binary design 
> implementation.
> This, and a number of similar questions asked previously, has prompted me to 
> write a more extensive explanation of ASCII.  I will post a short off-topic 
> link back here when I put it on-line.
> 
> Fran
> 
> 
>