@merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 12 days agoThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1410arrow-down12
arrow-up1408arrow-down1imageThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.world@merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 12 days agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareThe_DecryptorlinkfedilinkEnglish2•12 days agoThat’s “Extended ASCII”, basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ? And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They’re just virtual these days.
minus-squareesalinkfedilink2•edit-212 days agoNo, I’m pretty sure the weird o with the leg is in basic ASCII. It’s also missing Latin characters like Æ. It’s a very weird standard.
That’s “Extended ASCII”, basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ?
And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They’re just virtual these days.
No, I’m pretty sure the weird o with the leg is in basic ASCII. It’s also missing Latin characters like Æ. It’s a very weird standard.