From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,CTE_8BIT_MISMATCH, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7db5fb0599fd4b76 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Beard Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Character'First, ASCII.NUL and others (Was: Re: TCP/IP Sockets with GNAT.Sockets) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 19:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1116124951 83622 212.85.156.195 (15 May 2005 02:42:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 02:42:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "Manuel G. R." , comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=TK33hflJUSFVGbSZ7Sv7Eeszo4q69vU1jM1v9papnkMIF9feC+hMt7XhkXyc/9eDYSmv7hDuIhDdTuCm4A9q6vK3FiMAc/Qd6EwKRLmtyXRkOHvSSPRzhT+99tOIttrX6mKXifo2X1Mmd7Qgns0PsRo3M4mllofXJdKgeUxT7vU= ; In-Reply-To: 6667 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11044 Date: 2005-05-14T19:42:04-07:00 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/