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The software engineer who wrote the code back in the 70's and only had ASCII available.
by joncp 6y ago
The software engineer who wrote the code back in the 70's and only had ASCII available.
- tantalor 6y agoLookup ASCII 130
- tobyjsullivan 6y agoEverything over 127 is part of Extended ASCII which, as far as I can tell, was introduced by IBM in '81.
- kps 6y agoThere were certainly other proprietary 8-bit extensions of ASCII before IBM's.
- kzrdude 6y agoI'm sorry, my computer is not 8-bit clean
- dragonwriter 6y agoASCII is a 7-bit character set, though there are a number of different 8-bit extensions of ASCII that are sometimes incorrectly called ASCII.
- slmjkdbtl 6y agoIt's funny in the Chinese article the authorities rejected the name "赵C" because they said their system can't handle latin characters (but can handle complex encoding of Chinese characters)
- userbinator 6y agoNot even ASCII, but likely a 6-bit encoding (think Base64), since names are not case-sensitive and storage was far more expensive.
- lmkg 6y agoSince names are often assumed to be not case-sensitive. Although every once in a while you still see a system that renders names in all uppercase, with the lone exception of a lowercase c in Scottish surnames starting with Mc-.
- kps 6y agoOr a 12-row encoding¹, if California kept records in the BC era (before computers). ¹ https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/8/71 https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/8...