On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Peter Duniho wrote:
On 2/24/11 10:42 PM, Lars Enderin wrote:
2011-02-24 15:26, Peter Duniho skrev:
On 2/24/11 10:14 PM, Lars Enderin wrote:
ASCII character values are limited to the 0-127 range. That's an
outdated "standard".
Used by "obsolete systems". A key point in my amusement. :)
I thought so, but Ken seemed to need an explanation.
Yes, and it was a good explanation. Unfortunately, I don't think he
understood the explanation, nor do I think he will understand further
clarification. I think it more likely that the harder anyone tries to
explain to him these points, the more dug in his heels will be.
To do otherwise would necessarily require an admission that
there's no
single "text file" format, and that even if there were, ASCII or any
of the single-byte derivatives thereof ain't it. I don't see any way
such an admission would ever be produced.
There is a single text file format: lines of characters in some
encoding, terminated by an end-of-line sequence which is
distinguishable
from any other characters.
It's merely the case that some current mainframes, and some obscure or
historical systems, do not store text in text files!