What extended ASCII character set uses 0x9D?

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Fri Aug 18 13:32:24 EDT 2017


On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, at 03:39, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> BTW, I was reading up on the history of ASCII control characters. Quite
> fascinating.
> 
> For example, have you ever wondered why DEL is the odd control character
> out at the code point 127? The reason turns out to be paper punch tape.
> By backstepping and punching a DEL over the previous ASCII character you
> can "rub out" the character.

I assume this is also why teletypes used even parity - so 0xFF can be
used as DEL on characters that had any parity.



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