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What happened to this block and the keyboard key arrangement? ESC [ { 11011 FS \ | 11100 GS ] } 11101 Also curious why the keys open and clos

• kazinator 8mo ago
  You're no longer talking about ASCII. ASCII has only a double quote, apostrophe (which doubles as a single quote) and backtick/backquote. Note on your Mac that the Option-{ and Option-}, with and without Shift, produce quotes which are all distinct from the characters produced by your '/" key! They are Unicode characters not in ASCII. In the ASCII standard (1977 version here: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub1-2-1977.pdf https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub1-2-197...) the example table shows a glyph for the double quote which is vertical: it is neither an opening nor closing quote. The apostrophe is shown as a closing quote, by slanting to the right; approximately a mirror image of the backtick. So it looks as though those two are intended to form an opening and closing pair. Except, in many terminal fonts, the apostrophe is a just vertical tick, like half of a double quote. The ' being veritcal helps programming language '...' literals not look weird.
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• jolmg 8mo ago
  > What happened to this block and the keyboard key arrangement? There's also these: | ASCII | US keyboard | |------------+-------------| | 041/0x21 ! | 1 ! | | 042/0x22 " | 2 @ | | 043/0x23 # | 3 # | | 044/0x24 $ | 4 $ | | 045/0x25 % | 5 % | | | 6 ^ | | 046/0x26 & | 7 & |