[Tutor] sort() method and non-ASCII
boB Stepp
robertvstepp at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 23:09:17 EST 2017
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> You might want to drop this term "hexadecimal"; they're just ordinals (plain
> old numbers). Though Unicode ordinals are often _written_ in hexadecimal for
> compactness and because various character grouping are aligned on ranges
> based on power-of-2 multiples. Like ASCII has the upper case latin alphabet
> at 64 (2^6) and lower case at 96 (2^6 + 2^32). Those values look rounder in
> base 16: 0x40 and 0x60.
I will endeavor to use "code points" instead. I am just used to
seeing these charts/tables in hexadecimal values.
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boB
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