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Re: char to decimal

From	Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: char to decimal
Date	2011-05-07 01:09 +0100
Organization	Dirk Bruere at Neopax
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On 06/05/2011 19:02, Lew wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 01:29 PM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>> On 06/05/2011 11:56, Lew wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2011 05:45 AM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>>>> On 05/05/2011 22:10, Lew wrote:
>>>>> markspace wrote:
>>>>>> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I need it to match the packet i/f [?] specs designed by somemone
>>>>>>> else
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> requires text characters be sent as decimal ascii [sic]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's a really odd requirement. Your spec might mean just regular
>>>>>> text. Not
>>>>>> ascii text, as in the character 9 followed by the character 7, but
>>>>>> just 'a' as
>>>>>> a literal 97 byte value.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just saying.
>>>>>
>>>>> What value does that spec indicate to transmit, say, the characters
>>>>> 'æ'
>>>>> or 'À', Dirk?
>>>>
>>>> English alphabet only
>>>
>>> The English alphabet includes 'æ', 'ë', 'ö', 'œ' and other such symbols
>>> not included in ASCII.
>>>
>>
>> Not in my part of the tech world it doesn't.
>> We don't do Old English Runes either.
>
> Excuse me, but what does the "tech world" have to do with what is and is
> not in English? Those letters are part of English orthography. If your
> "part of the tech world" doesn't recognize that fact, then the lack of
> recognition is an error. Ignoring reality doesn't change reality.
>

Well, as I said elsewhere in the thread:
"I need it to match the packet i/f specs designed by somemone else that 
requires text characters be sent as decimal ascii "

If it's not in ascii its not needed.

Ignoring what I wrote doesn't change reality either.

-- 
Dirk

http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology

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char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 01:43 +0100
  Re: char to decimal Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2011-05-04 17:49 -0700
  Re: char to decimal Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-05-05 01:06 +0000
    Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-05 20:03 +1200
      Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 07:03 -0400
        Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 11:18 +0000
          Re: char to decimal Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-05 06:11 -0700
            Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 01:59 +1200
              Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-05 16:53 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 11:49 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-06 08:46 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 18:43 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:52 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 11:39 +0000
              Re: char to decimal Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-05-05 14:13 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 11:49 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-06 08:47 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 18:43 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:54 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-05-06 10:30 +0300
              Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:05 -0400
            Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 14:56 +0000
              Re: char to decimal Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-05 11:48 -0700
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:06 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 21:28 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:32 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 08:31 +0000
          Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:04 -0400
      boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 09:00 -0400
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-06 06:54 -0700
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-06 07:07 -0700
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-06 08:30 -0700
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-05-06 15:35 +0100
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 19:12 +0200
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 13:26 -0400
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:25 -0400
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:28 -0400
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-09 12:51 -0400
            Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-09 23:54 +0000
            Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-09 20:51 -0400
              Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-10 11:20 -0400
            Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-10 13:47 +1200
              Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-10 11:02 -0400
                Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-11 14:05 +1200
                Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-11 08:11 -0400
  Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 02:12 +0100
  Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-04 21:59 -0400
    Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 16:14 +0100
      Re: char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-05 11:20 -0700
        Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:10 -0400
          Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 22:00 +0000
            Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 18:20 -0400
          Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 10:45 +0100
            Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:56 -0400
              Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 11:48 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-05-06 08:38 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-06 09:47 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 12:02 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 19:15 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 14:01 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 20:07 +0200
                Re: O/T linguistics (Was: char to decimal) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 15:28 -0400
                Re: O/T linguistics Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:44 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 23:57 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 12:00 -0400
              Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 18:29 +0100
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 14:02 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 01:09 +0100
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-07 00:18 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 21:30 -0400
  Re: char to decimal Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-04 22:03 -0700
    Re: char to decimal "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-05-05 01:14 -0700
    Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 16:15 +0100

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