Re: Character'First, ASCII.NUL and others (Was: Re: TCP/IP Sockets with GNAT.Sockets)

[Frank Beard <frank_ada2000@yahoo.com>]

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Well, I was actually talking about what is really
referred to as the Extended ASCII set:

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/ascii.htm
or
http://www.lookuptables.com/

Maybe I've just been working in the Windows world too
long:

http://telecom.tbi.net/asc-ibm.html

Frank


--- "Manuel G. R." <mgrojo@ya.com> wrote:
> Frank Beard wrote:
> > The ASCII package became one of the "Obsolescent
> Features" before the 
> > ASCII standard was expanded from 128 to 256
> characters.  Even if it 
> > didn't expand, it would probably never be gone
> from the Ada standard, 
> > for backward compatibility reasons.  The only risk
> would be trying to go 
> > beyond character'pos = 127.
> >  
> > Now that the ASCII standard is expanded, there's
> probably no reason not 
> > to use it.  But, if you're worried about it you
> can just do the rename 
> > as*/ /*Adrien pointed out in his reply.
> >  
> 
> ASCII is a 7 bit character set and never was
> expanded to 256 characters. 
> You are probably refering to one of its supersets,
> e.g. Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859
> 
> But I think you are right, ASCII package should
> never leave the standard.
> 
> -- 
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>
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