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Fun fact: sorting ASCII numerically puts all the uppercase letters first, followed by all the lowercase letters (ABC... abc...). A more typical dictionary order
by senkora 2y ago
Fun fact: sorting ASCII numerically puts all the uppercase letters first, followed by all the lowercase letters (ABC... abc...). A more typical dictionary ordering would be more like AaBbCc... (or to even consider A and a at the same sort level and only use them to break ties if the words are otherwise identical).
The order used by ASCII is sometimes called "ASCIIbetical", which I think is wonderful.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ASCIIbetical https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ASCIIbetical
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoI thought the point of that was that a single bitflip makes an uppercase lower, or vice versa...
- Dylan16807 2y agoIt can't be "the" point, because AaBbCc would also let you use a single bit to control case, the bottom bit.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoThe first bit was already taken at that point. The original 6bit ASCII (or whatever that predecessor was called) only did uppercase. A 7th (and later, 8th) bit was added to give it lowercase.