10 sec poll - please reply!

[Michael Herrmann]

On Sunday, November 25, 2012 12:23:13 AM UTC+1, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> ...
> 	Pardon? In ASCII (and encodings that share the first 128 positions),
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> a TAB is x09.
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> 
> 
> >>> def show(c):
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> ...     print "%r is 0x%2.2X" % (c, ord(c))
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> ...
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> >>> show(raw_input()[0])
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> i
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> 'i' is 0x69
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> >>> show(raw_input()[0])
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> 
> 
> '\t' is 0x09
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> >>>
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> 
> 
> 	My "input" for the second was <ctrl-i>
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> 
> 
> 	Typically, keyboard/console interfaces generate
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> <ord-lowercase-letter> - 0x60 when the control key is held down.
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> Lowercase "i" is 0x69; minuse 0x60 give 0x09, which is the TAB
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> character.
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> 
> 
> 	A GUI interface, however, may capture the combination for some other
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> usage.

Thanks! I did not know that.

Michael