for / while else doesn't make sense

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 24 May 2016 08:36 am, Christopher Reimer wrote:

> Those symbols are blowing my 8-bit ASCII brain. :)

That's certainly true, because there is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII. ASCII
is a 7-bit encoding. (Most implementations set the extra bit to zero, a few
*very* old machines might have set it to one, and if I remember correctly,
Wordstar used to use it for its own internal purposes.)

What people usually mean by "extended 8-bit ASCII" is a large family of many
different extensions to ASCII, many of which have multiple names for added
confusion, such as Latin-1, ISO-8859-2, MacRoman, and many more. None of
these are ASCII, although they contain ASCII as a subset of their
characters (just as Unicode does).


-- 
Steven