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." 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. > > -- > Ada programming tutorial: > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Ada > Tutorial de programaci�n en Ada: > http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programaci%C3%B3n_en_Ada > _______________________________________________ > comp.lang.ada mailing list > comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org > http://www.ada-france.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/