Extended ASCII [was Re: for / while else doesn't make sense]

Wed May 25 03:30:20 EDT 2016

On Wednesday 25 May 2016 16:38, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> Christopher Reimer wrote:
>> Nope. I meant 8-bit ASCII (0-255).
>> 
>> http://www.ascii-code.com
> 
> That page is talking about latin-1, which is just one of many
> possible 8-bit extensions of ascii.

Yes. It even says

"There are *several* different variations of the 8-bit ASCII table."

(emphasis added), which is an understatement and a half. Wikipedia claims over 
220 different "extended ASCII" encodings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII

That's more than the number of countries in the world, which (depending on how 
you count them) is generally recognised to be about 194.

http://www.worldatlas.com/nations.htm

-- 
Steve