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At least one of the screenshots[1] has him entering a value such as 1001 1010 which isn't ASCII (the 8th bit, the MSB, is set; ASCII is composed of 7 bits)
by deathanatos 10y ago
At least one of the screenshots[1] has him entering a value such as
1001 1010
which isn't ASCII (the 8th bit, the MSB, is set; ASCII is composed of 7 bits).
It seems to give him Ü, which is that bit pattern in at least CP 850[2] (the character encoding used by DOS by computers sold in America / western Europe). Which every time I look up that Wikipedia article brings back the nostalgia of seeing [3] on the screen, and playing games like Hack[4].
[1]: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3b29cbd1b405af4a2991e19553f7c38a0863f5f9/68747470733a2f2f7468756d62732e6766796361742e636f6d2f466169746866756c54686f736543726f737362696c6c2d73697a655f726573747269637465642e676966 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3b29cbd1b405af4a2991e1955...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850
[3]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Codepage-850.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Codepage...
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game)
- w0utert 10y agoI assume that's because he types the least-significant bit first? That would make ASCII code 89 for capital Y...
- wruza 10y ago>types LSB first That's pretty disturbing.
- userbinator 10y agoFor someone who works with hardware a lot, it's probably trivial to switch endianness mentally. From the description: "Each byte can either be typed from most significant bit to least significant bit (left to right), or least significant bit to most significant bit (right to left)."