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> and all ASCII ever was Except that's not true. The ASCII control codes were never glyphs, but were used to control the hardware.
by perilunar 7y ago
> and all ASCII ever was
Except that's not true. The ASCII control codes were never glyphs, but were used to control the hardware.
- carapace 7y agoSorry, what I mean was ASCII wasn't an encoding of the English language, just an encoding of the English alphabet and some other symbols. You're quite right that, uh, meta-linguistic symbols are also in there and that does kind of complicate my argument.